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animals

An American robin eats a winterberry

Environment

Animal decline is hurting plants' ability to adapt to climate change

Declines in bird and mammal species are making plant seed dispersal more difficult, which means plants can’t adapt as effectively to climate change

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SACO, ME - JUNE 10: American Shad swim past the observation window in Brookfield Renewables', Cataract hydro electric station fish passage on the Saco River, in Saco, on Thursday, June 09, 2016. (Photo by Carl D. Walsh/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

Life

Swimming in a school may help fish hear dolphins’ ultrasound clicks

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Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncates)

Life

Dolphins may communicate by changing the volume of their whistles

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Life

Breeding with farmed fish is changing the life cycle of wild salmon

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H7W470 Kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei) pair emerging from burrow in Gibber Desert, central Australia

Life

Meat-eating mammals are more susceptible to cancer than herbivores

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Eurasian Jay in the wild

Mind

Meet the scientists who perform magic tricks on birds

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Medical Research: albino rat for animal experiments

Life

51¶¯Âþs asked pet rat owners for tips on looking after lab rats

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Crocidura caudipilosa

Life

Fourteen new species of shrew discovered on an Indonesian island

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A ten-centimetre-long, yellow-brown female Eumillipes persephone millipede with 1306 legs

Life

Millipede in Australia is first to actually have more than 1000 legs

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An almost-transparent, newly-hatched gloomy octopus

Life

Newly hatched gloomy octopuses may seek out light to catch tiny prey

Two-millimetre-long gloomy octopus hatchlings move towards a source of light, possibly because it makes it easier to hunt prey

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Life

When geckos play ball and spiders spar: The strange evolution of fun

Features

Life

Did monkeys really sail the oceans on floating rafts of vegetation?

Features

Life

Destructive pest moth stripped of sex appeal by gene editing

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Life

Zebra finch songs alter the behaviour of their chicks' mitochondria

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