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Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage
New book Ahab's Rolling Sea highlights our destructiveness as it teases fact from fiction in Moby-Dick, the obsessive hunt for a great white whale
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Don’t miss: the art of science, vanishing cetaceans and edited humans
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Microplastics may stop hermit crabs from choosing the best home
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Coral reefs are now spawning out of sync and might fail to reproduce
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Great Barrier Reef now has ‘very poor’ outlook due to climate change
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Don’t miss: Curative comedy, cultural copies and an unlikely fish diet
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Endangered whale sharks strain fish out of the water using huge mouths
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The secrets of how sharks survived so many of Earth’s mass extinctions
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Weird whale may be a hybrid of a narwhal mother and beluga father
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Sea otters are bouncing back – and into the jaws of great white sharks
Decades of conservation work have boosted sea otter populations in many parts of the North Pacific, but the animals are now being killed by great white sharks
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Underwater tests reveal sharks may be smarter than you think
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Huge mega-rafts carried dinosaur-era animals on round-the-world trips
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Reef halo riddle: What’s behind the mysterious rings around coral?
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From the archives: When oil turned Alaska’s coastline black
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