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Little Foot hominin on display, ancient penguins hit new heights, icy mountain resized, and more

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Peccaries

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Sad ‘pigs’ have been filmed apparently mourning a dead friend

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Tortoise

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Giant tortoises are rare today but once roamed four continents

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Wildebeest no more: The death of Africa's great migrations

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A chicken under a person's arm

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No, the UK didn't vote that animals can't feel pain or emotion

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Scorpion

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Venom: The show with an unsettling sting in its tale

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Spallanzani

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The ingenious priest who discovered how bats 'see' in the dark

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cats

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Inside the strange world of the Museum of Ordinary Animals

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zebra carriage

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The tortoise-riding banker who collected the natural world

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Malaria parasite makes mosquitoes more likely to suck your blood

The malaria parasite appears to alter mosquitoes’ feeding behaviour to steer the vector towards a human host

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Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food

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Pied tamarin doesn't look too happy about its extreme close-up

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Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

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Butchery of a black rhino wins Wildlife Photographer award

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