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biology

A salmon swimming upriver to spawn

Life

Baby salmon with ‘old’ DNA more likely to survive epic migration

We usually associate short telomeres with ill health but young salmon with them seem to have a higher chance of coping with a time at sea

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Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

Health

Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

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Man holding cod

Life

Now North Sea cod is sustainable, is it really ok to eat?

Analysis

Giant deep-sea worms may live to be 1000 years old or more

Life

Giant deep-sea worms may live to be 1000 years old or more

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Mud eel's wonky body may help it ambush prey

Life

Mud eel's wonky body may help it ambush prey

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First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves

Life

First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves

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People looking through window at a hopsital nursery with abies in cots

Life

At least 75 per cent of our DNA really is useless junk after all

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blue whale skeleton suspended from the ceiling

Life

The day Hope the whale stole the show

Culture

A view accross farmland with a little water on the surface

Life

150-year-old zombie plants revived after excavating ghost ponds

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Raven

Life

Ravens can plan for future as well as 4-year-old children can

The smart birds seem to have evolved this flexible cognitive ability independently from hominids as the two lineages diverged about 320 million years ago

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Life

Smart but dumb: probing the mysteries of brainless intelligence

Features

Life

Swinging birds play with rhythm like jazz musicians

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Life

Ants build living towers that flow like a fountain in reverse

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Life

Whales sneak into shallow water to eat salmon from hatcheries

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