Early sea spider flashes pincers
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Scientists reconstruct a sea spider from the faint imprint it left when it fossilised 425 million years ago.
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Florida marine biologists are working on a new tail for a baby
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Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined. At one site, nearly 2 miles deep in the Atlantic, shrimp were living around a vent that was releasing water heated to 765 degrees Fahrenheit. Water surrounding the site was a chilly 36 degrees.
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By Ray Kershaw  It's early October but the midday sun is torrid. Beyond the scrubby hills the sea glitters like hot steel. Then suddenly, from a corner of our vision, we see him leaping through the dunes.
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By Papasian, Melanie H  A new tree-ring study links rising sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean to the last five centuries of episodic fire outbreaks in the western United States.
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Let's see David Blaine do this. Watch a slippery cephalopod show why its kind are among the great escape artists of the deep.
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A five-year survey of fish for sale at ports across the archipelago has revealed at least 20 previously unknown species, according to the Australian team that led the study.See photos >>
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Training her binoculars on a dark patch of floating seaweed, Gena Bentall gasped. After searching for sea otters all day, the research biologist had spotted one: a mother with a pup on her belly, but the otter's face was mauled and dripping blood and a male was hot on her tail.
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A fossil of a new crab species reveals the itsy-bitsy crustaceans inhabited towering sponge reefs during the Jurassic Period, where they made tasty snacks for ichthyosaurs and other ancient reptiles.
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For the second time in three years, a hypoxic "dead zone" has formed off the central Oregon Coast. It's killing fish, crabs and other marine life and leading researchers to believe that a fundamental change may be taking place in ocean conditions in the northern Pacific Ocean.
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A warm-water Atlantic triple fin fish has for the first time been caught off the coast of Britain, in another sign of species migrating north as global temperatures rise, experts have said.
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A large Humboldt squid caught offshore from Sitka is among numerous sightings of a species seen for the first time in waters of the Far North, and the first of the species recovered from British Columbia waters.
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WASHINGTON -- The first animal to crawl onto land from the ocean probably looked a bit like today's salamander, and researchers have wondered how it was able to switch from swimming to walking. Now, European scientists have built a robot with a primitive electric nervous system that they say mimics...
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Australians have been warned: angry arachnids are heading indoors.
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Science & environment: Giant sea creatures have been found by Australian scientists in the deep waters around Antarctica
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From post-coital cannibalism to love at first sight, the sex life of the African jumping spider is full of surprises, according to a new study.
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A satellite tracking project shows the ocean hotspots where albatrosses come into conflict with longline trawlers.