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Largest ever fish colony hosts 100 billion eggs under Antarctic ice

Life

Largest ever fish colony hosts 100 billion eggs under Antarctic ice

In the Weddell Sea near Antarctica, scientists have found the largest colony of fish nests in the world, covering 240 square kilometres

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How to alter your personality: why your character isn't fixed in stone

How to alter your personality: why your character isn't fixed in stone

Features

How to alter your personality: why your character isn't fixed in stone

Mind

How to alter your personality: why your character isn't fixed in stone

Features

Bottlenose dolphins swim off the coast of South Carolina

Life

What dolphins reveal about the evolution of the clitoris

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Purple-crowned fairy-wrens

Life

Fairywren birds can nest out of breeding season to boost numbers

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Archerfish

Life

Archerfish prove they can count by spitting at computer screens

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Eurasian Jay in the wild

Mind

Meet the scientists who perform magic tricks on birds

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elephant

Life

Young male elephants rein in aggression if older males are nearby

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dog

Life

Dogs notice when computer animations violate Newton’s laws of physics

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Domestic turkey

Life

Turkeys with pale plumage are more fearful than dark-feathered birds

Domesticated turkeys in Nigeria come in a variety of colours, and those with lavender-coloured feathers are more fearful than black-feathered birds

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Mind

Laughter Lab at London's Cartoon Museum explores the science of humour

Culture

Life

Stones smashed by horses can be mistaken for ancient human tools

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Life

Risso’s dolphins have invented rapid spin-dive technique for hunting

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Humans

Why do we grieve? The surprising origin of the feeling of loss

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