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Nightmarish 'footballfish' washes up dead on US beach in potential 1st-of-its-kind occurrenceA female Pacific footballfish was found dead on an Oregon beach — potentially for the first time ever. It is currently unclear what killed the alien-looking creature and how it was dragged up from the depths.
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Ancient, 30-foot relative of great white shark unearthed in Mexico quarry"Exceptionally preserved" fossils of an ancient shark that lived alongside the dinosaurs has finally revealed what the predator looked like — and why it may have gone extinct.
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Anglerfish entered the midnight zone 55 million years ago and thrived by becoming sexual parasitesAnglerfish first colonized the ocean's midnight zone 55 million years ago, during a period of extreme global warming, a new study finds. The bizarre fish adapted to thrive in the deep sea by becoming sexual parasites, the researchers said.
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There's 5 times as many bull sharks off Alabama now — but don't worry about shark bitesJuvenile bull shark numbers have significantly increased in Mobile Bay, Alabama, as waters warm — but swimmers don't need to worry, researchers say.
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Smalltooth sawfish in Florida are spinning and beaching themselves in strange, mystery die-offErratically thrashing and whirling smalltooth sawfish are stranding on beaches — and scientists don't know why they're behaving this way.
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77,000 baby salmon survive truck crash in Oregon by leaping into nearby creekA truck that was transporting 102,000 spring Chinook salmon to the Imnaha River in northeastern Oregon crashed in a road bend, spilling most of its cargo into a nearby creek.
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Elusive prickly sharks spotted gathering at underwater mountain off Panama — but why remains a mysteryResearchers have spotted an atypical gathering of rare prickly sharks around a seamount off Panama.
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Watch rare endangered pink handfish walking in 19th-century shipwreck off TasmaniaTechnical scuba divers found a rare pink handfish hidden among the wreckage of the SS Tasman.
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'Ghost shark' with enormous head and giant iridescent eyes discovered off ThailandA new species of deep-sea chimaera with a ghoulish appearance has been discovered in the Andaman Sea.
