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Why insects are the real rulers of the world

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Why insects are the real rulers of the world

They make up three-quarters of all known animal species, yet we are only just starting to understand how insects came to conquer the Earth

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Sharp-eared T. rex may have stalked the night like today's owls

Life

Sharp-eared T. rex may have stalked the night like today's owls

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Environment

Eight-legged shriek

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Above board

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Bumblebees deployed to spray crops with pesticides

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Bumblebees deployed to spray crops with pesticides

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Perfect perch

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Ocean’s hidden green plankton revealed by fixing glitch in model

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Ocean’s hidden green plankton revealed by fixing glitch in model

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Mississippi melter?

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Mississippi melter?

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How a creationist instinct stops us seeing evolution everywhere

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How a creationist instinct stops us seeing evolution everywhere

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<em>The Secret Lives of Bats</em>: The adventures of the real batman

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The Secret Lives of Bats: The adventures of the real batman

Merlin Tuttle defied death by charging elephant, damaged his lungs by inhaling ammonia and braved spear-waving hunters – all to transform the bat's image

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Digital version of piece of rat brain fires like the real thing

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Life

Elephants almost never get cancer thanks to multiple gene copies

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Life

Go beyond your five senses with my extrasensory jacket

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Pieces of eight

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