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Flaring the gills that give the species its name, a frilled shark swims at Japan's Awashima Marine Park back in 2007.

Sightings of living frilled sharks are rare, because the fish generally remain thousands of feet beneath the water's surface.

There's no better way to finish the week than with an amazing flying fish. Go fishy, go!

If you took a picture of the Sun at the same time each day, would it remain in the same position?

The answer is no, and the shape traced out by the Sun over the course of a year is called an analemma.

The Sun's apparent shift is caused by the Earth's motion around the Sun when combined with the tilt of the Earth's rotation axis. The Sun will appear at its highest point of the analemma during summer and at its lowest during winter.

The analemma pictured to the left was built up by Sun photographs taken from 1998 August through 1999 August from Ukraine.

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Space rocks that smashed into the water just off Australia could have accelerated the demise of the Roman Empire.

That's one of the things I love about science the most - cause and effect. A cause can have the strangest effect.

This young gorilla likes to watch the world go by.

Six-month-year-old Yewande was taking it easy after a morning playing with her cool pink blanket.

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The world's most miserable-looking marine animal is in danger of becoming extinct, according to scientists.

They fear the blobfish, which can grow up to 12 inches, could be wiped out by over-fishing in its south eastern Australian habitat

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Prehistoric moa could actually fly but lost the ability after the extinction of dinosaurs made them "fat and lazy" on land, a new study suggests.

The discovery debunks global theories about the age of flightless birds and suggests the moa's ancestor flew to New Zealand from Antarctica.

It just goes to show you, anyone can make a discovery as long as then look hard enough.

New life has been found in a British pond that survives in an unique way.

The single-celled organism Loxodes Rostrum survives by 'milking' oxygen from tiny green algae that live inside it.

The pond in the East Stoke Fen nature reserve in Dorset was studied for two months by scientists from Queen Mary University.

They found more than 100 single-celled species - including the never-seen-before lifeform.

The Bronx Zoo welcomed four new additions last week; a trio of brown bear cubs from Alaska and an adolescent bear from Montana.

All were rescued after their mothers had been killed for viewing humans as prey.

It looks like the little 'uns have fitted in well and seem to be enjoying the cold weather.

The colour of some dinosaurs and early birds' feathers has been identified for the first time.

Dinosaur Sinosauropteryx had simple bristles - precursors of feathers - in alternate orange and white rings down its tail, and the early bird Confuciusornis had patches of white, black and orange-brown colouring, University of Bristol research revealed.