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Seals have a unique superpower in their ears, and we finally know how it evolved
Researchers have uncovered the evolutionary secret behind how seals maintain high-functioning hearing both on land and underwater.
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7 trends tracked about this subject — the full history, oldest to newest below.
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Good at maths and into jazz: Nine extraordinary things you probably didn't know about sharks
World Shark Day and Shark Week activities are shifting public perception from fear of predators to the celebration of shark intelligence and ecology.
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Around 252 million years ago, volcanoes across what is now Siberia erupted repeatedly for more than a million years, releasing perhaps 100,000 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide and helping wipe out roughly 90 per cent of marine species in the deadliest mas
Researchers have identified the cause of the 'Great Dying,' the deadliest mass extinction in Earth's history occurring 252 million years ago.
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Scientists have now made the most comprehensive tally yet of deep-sea exploration — 43,681 dive records dating back to 1958 — and found that humans have directly seen less than 0.001% of the deep ocean floor, an area roughly the size of Rhode Island, l
Scientists have mapped less than 0.001% of the deep ocean floor, highlighting vast unexplored areas.
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Science news this week: Goblin shark filmed for first time, California close to a major quake, physicists split photon, and inside China's plans to 'tame nature'
Rare deep-sea goblin sharks have been captured on camera in their natural habitat for the first time.
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A Greenland shark studied in 2016 was estimated to be nearly 400 years old, meaning it may have been born around the time Shakespeare’s era was ending — and, astonishingly, would not have reached sexual maturity for more than another century.
A Greenland shark estimated to be nearly 400 years old highlights the extreme longevity and delayed maturity of the planet's longest-living vertebrate.
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When a dead whale sinks to the seafloor, its 'whale fall' becomes an oasis feeding deep-sea life for decades — up to 190 species crowding a single skeleton, with bone-eating worms gnawing the bones for as long as a decade
The discovery of a massive underwater whale graveyard reveals how 'whale falls' sustain deep-sea ecosystems for decades.