Underwater drones use sound to send snaps of the ocean floor
31 May 2017
Underwater unmanned vehicles that scour the ocean floor for submerged mines can now beam back their images to human operators in close to real-time
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Sea stars filmed hunting squid and squabbling over eating it
30 May 2017
Snails feast on sea lily faeces in the latest videos from submersibles diving in never-before-explored parts of the ocean
Hot, sleepless nights will get more common with climate change
26 May 2017
People in the US stand to lose sleep as the climate warms – and those in hotter countries will be harder hit
Governments sued over climate change, with banks and firms next
26 May 2017
Almost 900 climate change cases have now been filed in 24 countries, and the Paris climate agreement could provide a further boost to litigation efforts
Tree-climbing goats spit out and disperse valuable argan seeds
25 May 2017
Popular lore has it that goats defecate the seeds of fruits from the argan tree, but instead they must spit them out, helping to effectively disperse them
Monkey mafia steal your stuff, then sell it back for a cracker
25 May 2017
Long-tailed macaques living near an Indonesian temple have learned how to steal human possessions, including cash, and then trade them for food
See-through frog has heart you can see beating through its chest
25 May 2017
The beautiful Hyalinobatrachium yaku is a previously unknown glass frog from Ecuador, but its habitat is threatened by oil exploitation
Trump’s budget jettisons ‘irreplaceable’ marine mammals agency
25 May 2017
The US Marine Mammal Commission, charged with restoring oceans’ mammal populations, is set for the chop in president Donald Trump’s budget proposal
Newly-evolved microbes may be breaking down ocean plastics
25 May 2017
There is less plastic in our oceans than expected because life is evolving the ability to biodegrade it, one team is claiming
Traumatic beetle sex causes rapid evolutionary arms race
23 May 2017
Male seed beetles use sharp spikes on their penises to damage females during sex, but females are evolving thicker tissue to resist them
