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Environment

Lush meadows of underwater seagrass are removing plastic from the sea

A seagrass that forms lush underwater meadows can naturally trap plastic items in ball-shaped tangles and remove them from the seawater

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squid

Environment

Wind farm construction creates noise that may harm squid fisheries

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Why don’t wildebeest have wheels? Exploring the limits of evolution

Life

Why don’t wildebeest have wheels? Exploring the limits of evolution

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guttural toad

Life

Toads on tropical islands are rapidly shrinking as they evolve

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Rare bigfin squid found in Australian waters for the first time

Life

Rare bigfin squid found in Australian waters for the first time

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Eomonachus belegaerensis

Life

Giant seal fossil found in New Zealand hints they evolved in the south

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Sperm whales

Environment

Most whales and sea turtles seem to have plastic in their bodies

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great barrier reef

Environment

Biobank to house 800 coral species so we can restore reefs in future

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Tiny algae can photosynthesise and grow in the dark beneath Arctic ice

Environment

Tiny algae can photosynthesise and grow in the dark beneath Arctic ice

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Netflix

Life

My Octopus Teacher review: The strange lives of cephalopods up close

We understand so little about octopuses that whenever we look, we seem to find out more about them. Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher follows film-maker and naturalist Craig Foster's attempts to understand them further

Culture

Life

Watch cells sniff their way around the maze from Hampton Court Palace

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Life

Secret to tardigrades' toughness revealed by supercomputer simulation

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Health

Magnetic levitation can be used to separate the living from the dead

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