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animals

A Hawaiian crow using a stick as a tool

Life

Hawaiian crows can use sticks as tools but are nearly extinct

Like their cousins the New Caledonian crows, island-welling Hawaiian crows seem naturally disposed to using tools for getting food

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More than half of UK species in decline – some may soon vanish

Earth

More than half of UK species in decline – some may soon vanish

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World's first 'nanofish' could be used as guided drug missiles

Technology

World's first 'nanofish' could be used as guided drug missiles

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White killer whales were a legend – now they are everywhere

Life

White killer whales were a legend – now they are everywhere

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Animal sound symphony tells us new things about our world

Life

Animal sound symphony tells us new things about our world

Culture

panda

Life

Giant panda off endangered list as China’s conservation pays off

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A Gonatus squid eating another squid

Life

Deep-sea squid cannibals battle it out in a fight to the death

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Genius crow's tool-bending behaviour may be natural to its kind

Life

Genius crow's tool-bending behaviour may be natural to its kind

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Wasp sitting atop spider silk

Life

Wasps stitch up spiders in silk nests where they are eaten alive

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Mass of bees extending down from branch

Life

Giant honeybees may act like a collective lung to beat the heat

Curtains of bees appear to draw air in and out of their colonies, keeping their colonies cool

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Life

America's last mammoths died of thirst on an Alaskan island

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Earth

Spiky new ant species is named after Game of Thrones dragons

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Life

Well-travelled chimps more likely to pick up tools and innovate

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Life

Hummingbirds’ unique way of seeing prevents them from crashing

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