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Sword-slashing sailfish hint at origins of cooperative hunting
Cooperation makes it happen. Sailfish that work together in groups to hunt sardines can catch more fish than if they hunt alone, even without a real…
Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes
Chimpanzees and their relatives bonobos are closer than we thought. Bonobos seem to have donated genes to chimps at least twice in the roughly two million…
Is This the Year Governments Protect Antarctica’s Seas?
The odds world governments will finally agree to establish marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean are looking better than ever. The Southern Ocean around Antarctica…
Building better borders in Latin America
Illegal trading and the violence that can accompany it is a scourge along Latin America’s borders, but researchers from across the region are working together to…
Islands to lose fresh water as rising seas sink them from within
Small island nations are among the countries most at risk from climate change, as rising sea levels threaten to swamp them and make their fresh water…
Making Monster Waves in the Lab
Rogue waves are rare in nature, but new research is making them perfectly common. They seem to come from nowhere, walls of water towering above the sea, and…