Marine Life

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Nature & Animals Marine Life

The mantis shrimp's punch is so fast it boils the water around it

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Nature & Animals Marine Life

There may be a depth limit where no fish can live

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Nature & Animals Marine Life

A sperm whale's hunting dive can plunge two kilometers into the dark

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Nature & Animals Marine Life

An octopus tastes with its arms — and partly thinks with them too

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Nature & Animals Marine Life

Sharks are older than trees, dinosaurs, and Saturn's rings

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The box jellyfish is the most venomous animal in the sea

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The colossal squid has the largest eye of any animal

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Nature & Animals Marine Life

The Greenland shark may be the oldest living vertebrate

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Nature & Animals Marine Life

The "immortal jellyfish" can rewind its own life cycle

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The mimic octopus impersonates other sea creatures on demand

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Octopuses have three hearts

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◆ On this day

On this day in Marine Life

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11 Jul 1893

Nature & Animals Marine Life

The first cultured pearl was harvested off Japan

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22 Dec 1938

Nature & Animals Marine Life

The coelacanth, a fish thought extinct for 66 million years, turns up alive

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12 Nov 1970

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Oregon's highway crew tried to blow up a whale with half a ton of dynamite

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