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A petition set up by campaign group Save Our Reds, has attracted more than 75,000 signatures.

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Monstrous octopus terrorized seas off B.C. in Age of Dinosaurs, study suggests

Whale-sized, monstrous octopuses prowled the seas during the Age of Dinosaurs, snatching prey with their huge tentacles and crunching them with powerful jaws, fossils from B.C. and Japan suggest.

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Meet the 19-metre octopus that prowled the ancient seas

Giant octopuses may have ruled the oceans 100 million years ago, according to fossil evidence.

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May 9 08:00Global crop introduction drives host jumps, turning native pathogens into emerging diseases - Uma Crouch, et al. (PNAS)
May 8 20:03Avian lung single-cell atlas elucidates evolutionary divergence in endothermic respiration by Yan Hao and others (MBE)
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