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Meet the sarcastic fringehead, an oddly named fish who looks like the Predator

The sarcastic fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi) is a footlong fish that lives off the Pacific coast of North America. When unthreatened, the fringehead's visage is fairly unremarkable. But if a marine predator (or stray human hand) attempts to dislodge a fringehead from its cre …

Two dolphins dead after ingesting synthetic heroin

Forensics experts say that two Swiss dolphins died of an overdose, presumably after some idiots fed them a synthetic opiate during a two-day rave (there is some dispute as to whether the dolphins' death had anything to do with the rave, as the deaths occurred weeks after the ev …

Smiling shark gives stunned diver a high-five

THE fin-credible moment a grinning shark gave a diver a high-five has been caught on camera.

Calico lobster on display at New England Aquarium

So you think blue lobsters are rare? The New England Aquarium is holding a lobster that's way rarer than that.

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Mysterious blob filmed deep under the sea - and no-one can work out what it could be

# YouTube video leaves commentators baffled # Creature could be a jellyfish - but it appears to have organs # It could be a discarded whale placenta - but it has strange markings # It could be a fishing net - but it seems to move under its own control

Debris from Japan Washes Ashore on the West Coast

Our northwest shorelines are now encrusted with the first wave of debris from Japan. Watch this incredibe video of just the very first wave of debris accumulation. This will be here for a very long time...what will become of our shore life in these areas?

MOOD lights and some not-so-HORNY fish! :/

      I have had a fish tank for almost 6 years.  I originally bought it and set it up for our kids, but recently I have become interested in, errrr… well fish reproduction.  The population has remained the same in our little tank... a few dea …

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Endangered Sumatran Tigers

 AWESOME take on one of the world's best animal saver's !

Teach!

As we evolve intellectually we accumulate beliefs formed by impressions - some are physical such as an accident or giving birth, others are based on an event while still others are based on a history of events. Most have to do with ourselves  and probably everythi …

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This flamboyant creature is half mollusk, half discotheque (video)

Meet Ctenoides ales, a bivalve that also goes by the names "electric flame scallop" and "fire clam." This invertebrate — which can be found off the coast of the eastern Pacific Rim around Indonesia and Japan — manipulates the highly reflective tissue on its mantle i …

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