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Life

Wasps use face-recognition brain cells to identify each other

The neurons in wasp brains that help them recognise hive mates are similar to those in the brains of primates, including humans

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Life

Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and become cannibals

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A female Japanese tit fluttering its wings

Life

Birds make an 'after you' gesture to prompt their mate to enter nest

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Solar Eclipse and elephants

Life

The surprising ways animals react to a total solar eclipse

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How manners can be a weapon to divide and disempower

Society

How manners can be a weapon to divide and disempower

Comment

Life

Poison frogs tap-dance to rouse prey and make them easier to catch

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Male Andrea cuttlefish (Sepia andreana)

Life

Male cuttlefish burst through their ink clouds to impress females

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A love bird

Life

Watch parrots use their beaks for a newly identified form of motion

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Life

See what the world looks like through the eyes of different animals

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Life

How wild primates adapt to living with disabilities

For primates, being born with a missing limb or experiencing a major injury isn’t necessarily disabling if their environment or social connections help them thrive – just like humans

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Life

Are there really freshwater manatees thriving deep within West Africa?

Features

Life

Reindeer can chew their food and sleep at the same time

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Technology

Robot eel reveals how the strange fish swim so efficiently

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Life

Anemones are first known animals to follow the sun like plants do

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