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Stonefish. Image via Pixabay The stonefish (Synanceia genus) represents one of nature’s most perfect examples of masquerade camouflage, with potentially fatal consequences for unwary beachgoers. These ...

These venomous ambush predators possess bodies covered with skin flaps, ridges, and protrusions that precisely mimic encrusted rocks, coral heads, or debris-covered seafloors. Species like the ...

What is clear is that deep-sea mining on a commercial scale will begin soon somewhere. Norway, the Cook Islands, Japan and Sweden have approved deep-sea mining in their exclusive economic zones.

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The Dead Sea in Israel is over 1,400 feet below sea level, but the Challenger Deep is 35,876 feet down at its lowest point. While most of the ocean bottom is nowhere near that low, life on land ...