"Guitar shark" and snail with venomous "harpoons" among 866 new marine species discovered in ocean
New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the marine ...
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The Pacific Ocean's phenomenal creatures
Hydrophiinae The Pacific Ocean’s sea snakes, also known as coral reef snakes, are long and colorful. They are one of the ...
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As biodiversity declines, researchers race to name millions of species unknown to science
In 2023, scientists discovered thousands of unknown life forms in the Pacific Ocean. The discovery highlighted an unsettling fact: 86 per cent of land species and 91 per cent of marine species remain ...
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Scientists Detect Huge Radioactive "Anomaly" Under Pacific Ocean
The isotope's half-life is a whopping 1.4 million years ... Koll and his colleagues examined geological samples taken from the Pacific Ocean's bed miles below the surface. They examined the ...
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The origins of ocean 'dead zones'
An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive A satellite ... Today’s largest open ocean dead zone, located in the ...
Real-life shipwreck story wins major book award
Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Shipwreck, Survival and Love, by Sophie Elmhirst, won the £30,000 Gold ...