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Amazon river dolphins may send messages with aerial streams of urine

Male dolphins have been observed shooting jets of urine into the air and other dolphins seem to follow the stream, perhaps to pick up social cues

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How polar bears stop ice from freezing on their fur

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Giant sloths lived alongside humans in South America for millennia

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Rabbits may eat their own teeth to boost their calcium intake

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Giant isopod named after Darth Vader is a delicacy in Vietnam

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The skull of a Smilodon, which were made up of saber-toothed cats

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Why sabre-toothed animals evolved again and again

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Victor Watts/Shutterstock (173165p) Gerald Durrell with Lemurs Various Portraits - 1990

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Memoir offers new insights into the life of naturalist Gerald Durrell

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Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum Credit: Sutton et al. Nature (2025)

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Punk and Emo fossils rock our ideas of how ancient molluscs looked

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Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes fosteri) colony with chicks, age 9-12 weeks, Antarctica. Bookplate.

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We thought we knew emperor penguins 鈥 robots are proving us wrong

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Secrets of velvet ant's venom explain what makes its sting so painful

A velvet ant sting is like 鈥渉ot oil spilling over your hand鈥 鈥 now, scientists have identified molecules in its venom that let it deliver excruciating pain to a variety of other animals

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Dolphins may use their teeth to hear underwater

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Whales may hone their singing skills by practising out of season

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2024 review: The strangest animal videos of the year

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Earliest known sabre-toothed predator hunted 270 million years ago

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