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Animals
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In the ocean depths, males attach to females until their circulatory systems fuse and they lose their own vital organs.
Nature
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How Malacosteus niger broke the rules of the deep ocean by developing night vision that its prey cannot see
Animals
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In the abysses of the Indian Ocean, Chrysomallon squamiferum reinforces its shell and body with iron sulfides to resist crushing claws and boiling waters.
Biology
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For more than six decades, science believed this animal always looked upward, until a robotic submarine revealed its intact liquid dome.
Nature
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This ancient jawless fish produces an elastic biomaterial capable of expanding 10,000 times to neutralize the jaws of hungry sharks.
Animals
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To fuse for life with the female, this deep-sea fish disabled genes in its own immune system, defying the laws of vertebrate biology.
Nature
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In the depths of the Indian Ocean lives the only known animal capable of incorporating iron sulfide directly into its skeleton.