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Researcher Ryan Askren with a collared Canada goose

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Canada geese return twice as quickly if you try to shoo them away

Geese chased out of a park in Chicago returned to the area twice as quickly on days when they were harassed, compared with days when they left of their own accord

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Frontal side view of the head of a juvenile Carpet-, or Diamond python, a species occurring throughout most of Australia; Shutterstock ID 696146398; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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51¶¯Âþs finally found the clitoris on snakes – and there are two

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A male katydid fossil from the Early Cretaceous period

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Fossils reveal the dinosaur era's changing insect soundscape

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Two rhinos grazing

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Endangered white rhinos' cells turned into sperm and egg stem cells

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honey badger eating beeswax

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A surprising number of African animals eat beeswax

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A nut wedged in the fork of a tree branch

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Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches

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Artist’s reconstruction of Janavis finalidens, a very large marine bird from the late Cretaceous

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Ancient bird with a movable beak rewrites the story of avian evolution

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Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii) Credit: Jens Rydell

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Bats and death metal singers use the same throat structure to growl

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The Amami spiny rat

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A rat without a Y chromosome could be a glimpse of our genetic future

Researchers have figured out how the Amami spiny rat lost its Y chromosome, and some believe the same fate may be in store for humans

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Ancient predator was one of first vertebrates to grow fast while young

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Health

Newborn female mice live longer if they smell older females' urine

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Bustards may use plants to treat STIs during the breeding season

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Oldest army ant found in 35-million-year-old Baltic amber

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