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Crows make the right tool by remembering the last one they saw

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Crows make the right tool by remembering the last one they saw

New Caledonian crows made bespoke food vouchers from memory with their beaks and claws, ripping pieces of card into exactly the right size to get a reward

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Female velvet ants are so scary no other animal dares eat them

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Female velvet ants are so scary no other animal dares eat them

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Why is the UK running out of CO2 and what will it mean?

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Why is the UK running out of CO2 and what will it mean?

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Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty

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Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty

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Moths fly 1000 kilometres with Earth’s magnetic field as a guide

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Moths fly 1000 kilometres with Earth’s magnetic field as a guide

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giant centipede

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Rainforest romanticism is derailing our hunt for new drugs

Culture

The New York bird with a song that may be a thousand years old

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The New York bird with a song that may be a thousand years old

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Some scorpions can hiss by rubbing themselves with ‘sandpaper’

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Some scorpions can hiss by rubbing themselves with ‘sandpaper’

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Pigeons can understand probabilities - just like primates can

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Pigeons can understand probabilities - just like primates can

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hallucinatory work

Life

Animals & Us: An art show about how we interact with creatures

A polar bear loose in the streets of a famous seaside town sets the stage for an art show to ask tough questions

Culture

Life

Identity crisis: When is a dinosaur not a dinosaur?

Features

Life

Old 51¶¯Âþ: Animal experiments in the bad old days

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Life

The yogurt cure: can 'good' bacteria save bats?

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Life

This big cat's seafood snack is an endangered turtle

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