Beyond the sunlit ocean lies a vast abyss where organisms have to recycle every scrap available.
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Animal welfare laws don’t protect invertebrates, but there’s evidence that some, such as octopuses, are as intelligent as many mammals – even if their cognition takes very different forms.
Box jellyfish have no brains, yet were recently found to be able to learn from touch. Many brainless organisms are now forcing us to rethink what it means to learn.
The gaping maws and great belch of the Norse ‘hafgufa’ may well have been a humpback whale simply engaging in trap-feeding.
The idea of a creature like the Loch Ness monster fascinates people. But does the scientific evidence say it’s a prehistoric beast or total fake?
The fossil is the oldest known vampyropod to date.
During the Paleozoic Era, giant sea scorpions would have been the equivalent of a great white shark in their food web.
Some animals, such as ghost shrimps can even cope with water that is saltier than normal seawater. It’s all down to evolution.
Nightvision, ejectable stomachs and regrowable arms mean starfish are more than meets the eye.
The sea remains the least explored habitat on our blue planet.
In the comic series Watchmen, physicist Jon Osterman is blown apart in a science experiment gone awry. But his “consciousness” is able to pull his body back together atom by atom, becoming the radiating…
I was 12 when I first came across an ocean dandelion. I wish I had known then how strange these animals truly are. I was watching a documentary where researchers had collected a deep-sea dandelion using…
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