Marine life
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Why don’t whales get cancer?
Cetaceans may have more rapidly evolving genes.
Whales, dolphins and porpoises are the world’s largest and longest-living mammals – and they can resist cancer. W...
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Netflix and gill: TV for fish
A UV fish TV reveals how fish see.
If you are a fish and want to watch TV, this might be the invention for you. Researchers from the University of Qu...
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Passing oil pollution from dolphin to calf
Oil spills affect dolphin health for a decade and counting.
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill and subsequent oil pollution have had long-term health effects for dolphins, accordi...
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Life below zero
The Antarctic delivers surprising insights into life and survival.
Life continues to amaze. Hundreds of metres below Antarctic ice, in complete darkness and temperatures below zero,...
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Seismic singing
Loud and clear fin whale calls could be used for surveys of Earth’s undersea crust.
The songs of fin whales can be used to survey the ocean crust, international researchers have just discovered. Fin...
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Tropical or temperate?
Study highlights competing impacts of warm waters and acidification.
Warming waters and ocean acidification could have opposing effects on the movements of tropical fish, according to a ...
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Video
Quick claw
This tiny amphipod can snap its claws at dizzying speeds.
Scientists have just discovered one of the fastest and most energetic motions on the planet – and it’s not what you t...
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Climate change could make sexier fish
But it’s not all good news in our future oceans.
Of all the impacts climate change could have on marine life, scientists have discovered that some fish adapt by devel...
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The wonders of seagrasses
They help fight marine plastic pollution, study finds.
Marine ecosystems are incredible. Although they’ve been besieged by plastic – among many other human-generated challe...
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Fish, undammed
Ingenious tube systems could reconnect ailing fish populations.
You wouldn’t be a freshwater fish for quids in this world. As human culture and ingenuity has progressed, the cons...
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Humans have dogs, fish have shrimp
We may not be only species to domesticate others.
Researchers have discovered that a species of coral fish uses shrimp to help fertilise its algae farms, which, they s...
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Magazine
Do fish dream?
Research certainly suggests they’re self aware.
By James Bradley A century ago the German biologist Jakob von Uexküll coined the term umwelt – literally “surround...