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Pacific football fish

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Unusual anglerfish glows with bioluminescent and fluorescent light

We already knew that anglerfish have light-generating bacteria in their tissues – now it turns out that one species, the Pacific footballfish, can also glow by fluorescing green

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Breeding with farmed fish is changing the life cycle of wild salmon

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A humpback whale

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Baleen whales eat three times more krill than we thought

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A sea cucumber, Chiridota heheva

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Sea cucumber has modified genes to help it live on hydrothermal vents

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Mother and baby Antarctic Fur seals

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Antarctic seal numbers rose and fell with climate over 50,000 years

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a lone female ostracod Photeros annecohenae (Anne's sea firefly) releasing bioluminescence. This photo was taken by Elliot Lowndes (https://mrlowndes.com) in our lab, and he should be credited upon use of this photo. This is a composite photo, combining the animal itself and its bioluminescence, taken separately

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Sea fireflies adapted their threatening glow to attract mates

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A grenadier fish swimming along the sea floor near an anemone

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A glimpse at Greenland's deep-sea ecosystems threatened by fishing

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Male bigfin reef squid may be the best fathers of all cephalopods

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Male bigfin reef squid may be the best fathers of all cephalopods

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Complex social lives of orcas revealed by drone observations

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Complex social lives of orcas revealed by drone observations

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Female seahorses cheat on their mate when they can no longer smell him

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Female seahorses cheat on their mate when they can no longer smell him

Seahorses usually pair up into monogamous couples, but when females are kept apart from their male partners with a barrier that blocks odour they will mate with another male

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The deep sea hosts twice as many shapes of fish as shallow waters

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Underwater glue made from silk can cling to surfaces like a barnacle

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Rare video of giant squid reveals it stalks jellyfish in deep water

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Fossil shows a shark eating a proto-squid as it ate a crustacean

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