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More of Earth is underwater than mapped. The strangest life on the planet hides down there.
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Beluga Whales: Singing Heads And Extreme Navigation
These Arctic whales earned the nickname "canaries of the sea" not just for their songs, but for an astonishing trick their flexible heads can pull off.
The Goblin Shark Shoots Its Jaw Forward
Imagine a shark's face suddenly erupting. The goblin shark does exactly this, launching its jaws out to snatch prey before retracting them.
Lemon Sharks Are Born Knowing Their Relatives
These ocean predators, often found lurking in mangrove nurseries, use chemical cues to recognize family members from birth. But why is family so important to a shark?
Sea lions might be spying on you
Turns out, they're just as curious about us as we are about them!
Seals and sea lions are terrible roommates
they're masters of the cuddle puddle, but why's it always so close?
Ghost nets haunt the ocean
those lost fishing nets are a silent killer for ocean life
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This jellyfish cheats death by aging backwards
It's a living paradox. This tiny creature can literally turn back time
Octopuses have alien brains and three hearts
These smarties have blue blood and brains that work totally unlike ours
Sea spiders aren't really spiders
They look like spiders, but these ocean dwellers are something else entirely
Tiny sea forests breathe life into our world
Who knew these little floaters were such big air-makers for Earth?
This snail's sting beats hospital painkillers
Turns out that slowpoke mollusk makes a painkiller stronger than morphine
This shark's older than the Mayflower
Seriously, this ancient shark has been around way longer than you think
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Where does more than half of the Earth's oxygen supply come from?
What would happen to a standard basketball at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
Approximately how much gold is dissolved within the world's combined ocean waters?
At what age does a Greenland shark typically reach reproductive maturity?
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Optical tricks, memory glitches and the colours that don't really exist.
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