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Dolphins may use their teeth to hear underwater

The teeth of dolphins and other toothed whales are connected to a uniquely thick bundle of nerve fibres, which might play a role in sound detection

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Whales may hone their singing skills by practising out of season

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A fluffy longhorn beetle

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A festival of stunning animal pictures from 2024

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2FYMTPP Pacific Ring of Fire, illustration

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Exoplanet plate tectonics: A new frontier in the hunt for alien life

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Image of Mars showing the Acidalia Planitia as a darker region towards the top right

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Life on Mars could be surviving in an area deep underground

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Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why

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Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

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Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

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Heart cockle shells

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Heart-shaped mollusc has windows that work like fibre optics

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World's largest coral discovered by accident

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World’s largest coral is 300 years old and was discovered by accident

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2M2WTDW Islands of floating algae. Seaweed Brown Sargassum floating on surface of the water, sun's rays breaking through the thick grass. Underwater shot

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Could seaweed be the ultimate carbon capture solution?

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions and developments yet to come. In our latest glimpse into the near future, Rowan Hooper tells how seaweed was a game changer when it came to getting carbon out of the atmosphere in the 2030s

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Complex form of carbon spotted outside solar system for first time

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Mind

The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

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Two injured comb jellies can merge to form one individual

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Freeze-thaw cycle helps asteroids ferry molecules of life to planets

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