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Life

These ants are one of the most effective teams in the natural world

Typically, individuals work less effectively in bigger teams, but weaver ants buck this trend by increasing their power output when they pull together

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Environment

Extreme heat is driving dramatic declines in tropical birds

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Life

Cockatoos have an impressively wide repertoire of dance moves

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Humans

Your pet dog’s ancestor was a fierce, wild animal. How was it tamed?

Features

Life

New-to-science stick insect is the heaviest ever found in Australia

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Puppy and cheetah cub make unlikely pair of step-siblings

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Thousands of seadragons are dying in Australia's toxic algal bloom

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Remarkable set of tracks suggests different dinosaurs herded together

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Life

The secret to what makes colours pop on dazzling songbirds

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Spectacular Triassic reptile had an early kind of feathers

A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before the appearance of feathered dinosaurs

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Life

Tiny elusive gecko rediscovered on one of the Galapagos islands

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Life

Ancient animal's fossilised brain prompts rethink of spider evolution

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Life

Small, stocky dinosaur related to Velociraptor named as new species

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Life

Octopuses fall for the rubber hand illusion just like us

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