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Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out

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Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out

Huge sea spiders move excruciatingly slowly, but they can still catch prey animals that move much faster than them – because their prey sometimes crash into the seafloor

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Acid lakes may be a false alarm but we can’t afford complacency

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A soldierfish with its lachrymal sabre ready for combat

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These fish hide fluorescent switchblades in their faces

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is gobbling up ever more plastic

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is gobbling up ever more plastic

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shell

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Mussel pain: The crisis engulfing our freshwater molluscs

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humpback whale

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Drone captures humpback whales catching krill with bubbles

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Shark's open mouth

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Shark-free world? That's a wish that would come back to bite us

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Wikie a killer whale, swims with her calf in Marineland aquatic park

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‘Speaking’ orca is further proof they shouldn’t be kept captive

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Pistol shrimp

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How a tiny shrimp fires a savage shock wave using just its claw

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Seal pups get separated from their mums by icebreaker ships

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Seal pups get separated from their mums by icebreaker ships

When icebreakers push through the sea ice on which Caspian seals nurse their young, mothers and pups flee and often get separated in the confusion

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Hundreds of Japanese species floated to the US on tsunami debris

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Banning shark fin soup in the US is bad for shark conservation

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Alligators versus sharks: Who wins this ultimate showdown?

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Robots can hitch-hike on sharks thanks to ultrastrong sucker

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