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Worms team up to form tentacles when they want to go places

Thousands of tiny nematode worms can join up to form tentacle-like towers that can straddle large gaps or hitch rides on larger animals

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AYMTTG A man looks at a display in the Hall of Biodiversity American Museum of Natural History

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Why avoiding a sixth mass extinction is easier than it sounds

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Crafty cockatoos learn to use public drinking fountains

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There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened

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There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened

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Life

Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during last ice age peak

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Why birds decorate their nests with weird and unnatural objects

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Flash floods sweep through vital sanctuary for Australian animals

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Honeybees are getting confused by electric pollution from power lines

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The first teeth were sensory organs on the skin of ancient fish

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Reconstruction painting of the track maker Credit: Marcin Ambrozik

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Fossil tracks rewrite history of animals leaving water to live on land

The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the earliest known instance of animals emerging from the water to live on land

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Chimps share 'building blocks of musical rhythm' with humans

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What if we could experience life as another species?

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Health

What are microplastics doing to your brain? We’re starting to find out

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Life

How Greenland sharks live for hundreds of years without going blind

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