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NOAA said rope recovered from a dead North Atlantic right whale was consistent with gear used in Maine, giving investigators a rare direct link between entangling gear and a specific source.
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The Devils Hole pupfish depends on a very small sunlit spawning shelf in Devils Hole, where even slight water-level drops can reduce breeding habitat and threaten reproduction.
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Authorities found about 55 grams of cocaine hidden inside a Styrofoam box of frozen fish during a cargo inspection.
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Some Alaskan stickleback fish evolved to lose much of their bony armor after becoming isolated in freshwater, likely because changing predation pressure made heavy plating less advantageous.
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Deep-sea fish use bioluminescence as a practical adaptation for hunting, communication, and defense in dark waters.
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Turritopsis dohrnii, often called the “immortal jellyfish,” can reverse its life cycle after adulthood and return to an earlier stage under certain conditions.
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Male pregnancy in vertebrates is essentially confined to syngnathid fishes, such as seahorses, pipefishes, and seadragons, where males brood developing embryos in a specialized structure.
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