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Gold has fascinated civilisations for millennia because of one remarkable quality: it rarely loses its shine. Ancient coins, jewellery and royal artefacts buried for thousands of years can still emerge gleaming with their familiar golden glow.

Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, roughly a thousand miles off the coast of Ecuador, the seafloor has been keeping time. Every five to six years, in almost the same locations, at almost the same intensity, a magnitude 6 earthquake strikes with a regularity so precise that scientists reached for the word "clockwork" to describe it.

As reported in the journal Nature, the finding revealed that a temperate rainforest once existed near the South Pole during the Cretaceous period. Scientists explained that the fossils were not random pieces of plant fragments carried from elsewhere.

For many years, marine biologists would talk about glass sponge reefs in the past tense. These incredible and fragile undersea formations, which were made by creatures that spun their siliceous skeletons, were thought of as ancient structures that belonged to the age of dinosaurs.

If you have a dog, you know the exact moment when the honeymoon phase is over. It often happens during a cosy morning cuddle when your furry best friend leans in for a sweet puppy kiss, and you're hit with a wave of breath so foul it could strip paint.

Deep-water expeditions in the Coral Sea continue to reveal how little of the ocean's biodiversity has actually been documented. Areas that appear visually empty on sonar scans often contain dense biological communities once remotely operated vehicles descend to the seafloor.