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Udta Machhli: Cocaine-infused sharks have been found infesting Rio’s waters in Brazil!
Scientists have found sharks high on cocaine off the coast of Rio! What's next for these party anim…
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WATCH: Rare giant squid with ‘headlight’ tentacles spotted attacking underwater camera!
The Dana octopus squid is a deep-sea creature known for its considerable size and unique biological…
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Video showed a humpback whale smashing into and capsizing a boat. Biologists say the whale was likely just feeding.
A humpback whale that was captured on video crashing into a boat off New Hampshire may have been fi…
Kelsey Vlamis,Jessica Orwig
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Florida residents were shocked to see a manatee swimming in their human-made lake. A biologist thinks she knows how it got there.
Residents living near an artificial lake in Florida noticed a manatee swimming in it. Manatees typi…
Jenny McGrath
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Orca pair devour 17 sharks in a day in South African killing spree, say marine biologists
A notorious duo of male orcas hunting off the coast of South Africa killed 17 sharks in "one sittin…
Bethany Dawson
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Starfishes are just one big head and no limbs, say scientists
While the starfish may appear to boast numerous "arms" extending from its central body, recent rese…
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Long-term pollutants are making their way to baby dolphins via their mother's milk!
These long-term pollutants are a menace to aquatic life, accumulating in the blubber of marine mamm…
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The death of an endangered fin whale was a marine murder mystery. Now, we have a suspect: orcas.
Bite marks have revealed the likely culprit in an endangered fin whale's death earlier this month.
Paul Squire
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Cargo ships are killing blue whales but the problem is 'uniquely resolvable,' marine biologist says
The world's busiest shipping lanes need to be rerouted to avoid "losing a culture of whales," marin…
Ayelet Sheffey
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At least 270 pilot whales are stranded at sandbanks in Australia — and a third of them have already died
“While strandings are not uncommon in Tasmania, and while strandings of this scale aren’t (u…
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Orcas observed devouring the tongue of a blue whale just before it dies in first documented hunt of the largest animal on the planet
The Western Australia study filmed orcas — also known as killer whales — preying on blu…
Bethany Dawson
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Marine scientists spotted a 'real-life' SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star near an underwater mountain in the Atlantic
A NOAA expedition spotted marine animals living a mile under the Atlantic waves. Two of those creat…
Aylin Woodward
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'Sea snot' is clogging up Turkey's coasts, suffocating marine life, and devastating fisheries
Fishing nets are bursting under the weight of a sea-snot blanket that extends about 100 feet below …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Florida's floodwater is full of poop bacteria - but a marine biologist says there's a bigger threat
"For Vibrio, open wounds and scrapes are a major concern. If people with those are exposed to flood…
Erin Brodwin
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Thousands of 10-inch worms known as 'penis fish' inundated a California beach. A biologist says they feel like 'slimy water balloons.'
"I had no idea what they might be ... it went on for 2 miles," Ford told Vice. "I walked for anothe…
Aylin Woodward
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'Queen of the ocean': 2-ton great white shark captured off the coast of Nova Scotia by marine researchers
The grandmother shark, measuring more than 17 feet long, is believed to be approximately 50 years o…
Sophia Ankel
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A biologist has a radical plan to save the Earth by reserving half of it for nature
Today every sovereign nation in the world has a protected area system of some kind. All together th…
Edward O. Wilson, "Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life"
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Biologists pulled something terrifying out of a turtle's nose that will make you a better recycler
When they first came upon him, the biologists were faced with a tough decision: Their research perm…
Jessica Orwig
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Boats still aren't safe from orcas as the Mediterranean yachting season kicks off and killer whales sink another yacht
Orca whales sank a 50-foot sailing yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar on Sunday in the latest of seve…
Erin Snodgrass,Kelsey Vlamis
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An ultra-swimmer tried to eat as much as a tiger shark and ended up consuming 40,000 calories in a day
Ultra-athlete Ross Edgley needs a lot of fuel for marathon swims, but tiger sharks have huge appeti…