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The axolotl may look cartoonishly harmless, but beneath its frilly gills lies one of evolution’s most astonishing survival abilities: functional brain regeneration.

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A new blue octopus species, Microeledone galapagensis, was recently discovered near Darwin Island in northern Galápagos.

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