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Watch a cuttlefish transform into a leaf and a coral to hunt its prey

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Watch a cuttlefish transform into a leaf and a coral to hunt its prey

In new video footage, cuttlefish show off their dazzling camouflage techniques, such as creating stripes that move over their bodies or mimicking non-threatening objects

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Shortage of male turtles could be solved by splash of cold seawater

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Greg Rouse, Scripps Oceanography The Osedax body is visible inside the root of the tooth on the left and the piece emerging from the lower left is the gelatinous tube of the Osedax worm. The worm can retract inside when disturbed so we can see it properly in the picture.

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Zombie worms devour shark teeth that fall to the ocean floor

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Why have orcas been damaging and sinking so many boats?

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Why have orcas been damaging and sinking so many boats?

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UK and Ireland suffer one of the most severe marine heatwaves on Earth

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Long spined sea urchins underwater on seabed of the Caribbean sea

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Surprising culprit found that killed 95% of a sea urchin population

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Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) grows in a thick, underwater forest near the Channel Islands in California. This area is part of a National Park and is teeming with thousands of marine species.

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Kelp forests capture nearly 5 million tonnes of CO2 annually

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Mysterious deep-sea holes may be burrows of tiny shrimp-like creatures

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Mysterious deep-sea holes may be burrows of tiny shrimp-like creatures

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RPS Woman Science Photographer of the Year a small group of atmospheric scientists move a fluxsled to the ice, this was the first instrument deployed on the new MOSAiC floe. ?Leap of Science? by Lianna Nixon (USA)

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See the top shots in the Woman Science Photographer of the Year award

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crustacean larvae

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Prawn larvae conceal their eyes with reflectors to hide from predators

To hide from predators, the larvae of some crustaceans camouflage their dark eyes with photonic glass that reflects light of the same colour as the water they inhabit

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Marine heatwaves could wipe out all common sea stars by 2100

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Ichthyosaurs used a barren region of the ocean as an ancient nursery

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Mexico’s latest plan to save endangered vaquitas could backfire

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Second world war shipwreck is leaking toxic chemicals in the North Sea

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