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15 articles tagged with “Ocean”
Jun 12, 2026
A Day in the Life of a Great White Shark
Follow a great white shark through a day off a seal colony — dawn ambushes and breaches, endless cruising to breathe, electroreception, and restful night swimming.
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Jun 3, 2026
A Day in the Life of an Octopus
Follow an octopus through a reef day — barricading its den at dawn, vanishing by camouflage, defending its home, then emerging at dusk to hunt and solve problems.
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May 30, 2026
The Boxer Crab and Its Living Pom-Poms
The tiny boxer crab carries a stinging anemone in each claw, waving them like pom-poms for defence — and if it loses one, it clones a spare. Inside one of the reef’s strangest partnerships.
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May 27, 2026
The Sea Turtle’s Long Way Home
From a frantic dash across the sand to a decade of "lost years" at sea, the sea turtle navigates oceans by magnetism — and returns decades later to the very beach it hatched on.
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May 9, 2026
7 Myths About Octopuses, Debunked
Octopuses aren’t mindless, their blood is blue, and they have arms (not tentacles) — 7 octopus myths debunked, including the truth about their "nine brains".
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Apr 15, 2026
Coral and Algae: The Partnership That Builds Reefs
Each coral is an animal sharing its body with millions of tiny algae that feed it with sunlight — the microscopic partnership that builds reefs, and the heat that breaks it.
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Apr 8, 2026
The Goby and the Pistol Shrimp: A Perfect Roommate Deal
A nearly blind shrimp digs the burrow; a sharp-eyed goby stands guard. Inside one of the sea’s tidiest partnerships — and the touch signal that keeps them both alive.
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Mar 26, 2026
How Sharks Sense Electricity
Sharks have a sixth sense — electroreception. Through the ampullae of Lorenzini they feel the faint electric fields of living prey, even a fish buried in sand.
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Mar 5, 2026
The Humpback Whale’s Ocean Migration
Humpback whales migrate up to 8,000 km between polar feeding grounds and tropical nurseries — fasting for months and singing haunting songs. Inside one of the longest mammal migrations.
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Feb 19, 2026
The Remora and the Shark: The Ocean’s Hitchhiker
The remora rides sharks, rays and turtles with a suction disc on its head — scoring a free ride and free meals while cleaning parasites off its host. Inside the ocean’s great hitchhiker.
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Feb 14, 2026
The 10 Deepest-Diving Animals on Earth
A whale that dives three kilometres down, a fish that lives eight kilometres deep, and a penguin that hunts under Antarctic ice — the 10 deepest-going animals on Earth and how they survive the crushing dark.
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Feb 7, 2026
The European Eel’s Journey to the Sargasso Sea
Born in the Sargasso Sea, the European eel drifts to Europe, lives for decades in rivers, then swims 6,000 km back to spawn once and die — a migration still wrapped in mystery.
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