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Cuttlefish embryos can see and recognise predators before they hatch
The transparent eggs of pharaoh cuttlefish let them see predators long before they hatch and they can even learn to spot new threats
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Fetal sharks may look for food by swimming around inside their mothers
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Coral likes to make its ocean home in places with noisy neighbours
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Manta rays have a special trick for filtering very tiny bits of food
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A species of fish has passed the mirror test for the first time
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Environment
The male fish who eat their eggs because they want better babies
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Environment
Sterile fish could help wild salmon dodge the ‘gene pollution’ effect
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Preserved ocean creatures make landfall in London
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Health
Time travel to Augusts past: cold cod, thawing mammoths, frozen nerves
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Eye of the shoal: Inside the surprising world of fish
Why do some fish sport beautiful colours? Can they feel pain? What’s special about lanternfish? The piscine world is awash with surprises, reveals a new book
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Earth
Cocaine in the water makes eels hyperactive and damages muscles
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Earth
Sperm whales are tracking fishing boats and stealing their fish
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Earth
In big cities even the fish are always rushing around the place
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Earth
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming
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