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Half of life on Earth has vanished since we arrived on the scene
The biomass of living organisms on the planet has halved since human civilisation began, and humans now outweigh all wild mammals tenfold
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The tides are getting stronger thanks to the shifting continents
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Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out
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A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land
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Virtuoso bowhead whales constantly make up new songs
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Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef
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Much of nature is near collapse and that means society is too
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A very pregnant female ray had to fend off four courting males
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is gobbling up ever more plastic
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Why ancient deer returned to the sea and became whales
Over the last 250 million years land animals have repeatedly begun exploiting the seas, giving rise to creatures like whales and walruses. The question is why
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Parts of San Francisco are sinking faster than the sea is rising
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Fish called ‘sarcastic fringehead’ has a wider mouth than body
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North Atlantic right whales didn’t have a single calf this year
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Sea urchins can drill holes in solid rock with just their teeth
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