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Well, not quite – but it’s true that about 80 per cent of our ocean floor remains unexplored and uncharted. Discovering what our ocean depths look like and what life might be found there is just as ch

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Mass extinctions and evolutionary leaps, from bacteria to Homo sapiens

The Universe is a big and complex beast, and doesn’t always behave in the way we might expect. So it’s not surprising that there are many misconceptions and misunderstandings about space. Some common