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Artists impression of an alien skyscape with nearby planets large in the sky

Space

TRAPPIST-1 worlds are close enough for life to hop between them

Some think life came to Earth from Mars on a meteorite. If this sort of thing can happen, it’s 1000 times more likely on TRAPPIST-1’s three habitable worlds

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Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously

Earth

Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously

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NASA image of planet

Earth

Plankton can save the ocean. But who will save the plankton?

Insight

Extinct squid relative

Life

Squid evolved in marine wars more than 100 million years ago

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TRAPPIST-1 seen from one of its 7 planets

Space

Exoplanet discovery: Seven Earth-size exoplanets may have water

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octopus

Life

The 1830s seamstress who solved Aristotle’s octopus mystery

Features

A turtle's eye

Life

Mystery eye disease is latest blow for Australia’s sick turtles

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Volunteers attending to stranded whales in New Zealand, 10 February 2017

Life

400 pilot whales stranded on New Zealand’s ‘whale trap’ beach

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Some of the turfwinkle snails in their natural habitat

Earth

Ocean acidification may be good for thriving marine snails

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A vaquita caught in a net

Life

World’s most endangered marine mammal has 30 individuals left

The vaquita porpoise lives in the Gulf of California, Mexico, where illegal fishing with gill nets has slashed the population by a total of 90 per cent in the past five years

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Life

Pom-pom crabs prune their living decorations like bonsai trees

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Life

New hermit crab has candy-stick legs and a giant spoon-like claw

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Life

Whale sharks' secrets revealed by live-tracking aquatic drones

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Life

Seals hunt down hidden fish by sensing their breath in the sand

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