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Zoologger: Smart camo lets glow-in-the-dark shark hide

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Zoologger: Smart camo lets glow-in-the-dark shark hide

If you're trying to hide, surely the last thing you want to do is glow? Actually, if you're a velvet belly lantern shark it's a bright idea

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Monkeys' art of war has lessons for human conflict

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Monkeys' art of war has lessons for human conflict

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Flab rats: Unfit animals are bad for experiments

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Flab rats: Unfit animals are bad for experiments

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Did exploding stars shatter life's mirror?

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Did exploding stars shatter life's mirror?

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Weed resistance could mean herbicide is futile

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Weed resistance could mean herbicide is futile

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Stray grey whale navigates the North-West Passage

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Stray grey whale navigates the North-West Passage

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Bahamas islands were giant labs for lizard experiment

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Bahamas islands were giant labs for lizard experiment

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Bugs will give us free power while cleaning our sewage

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Bugs will give us free power while cleaning our sewage

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Shark's nasal plumbing gives it a nose for blood

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Shark's nasal plumbing gives it a nose for blood

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Evolution gave flawed eye better vision

Evolution gave flawed eye better vision

It looks wrong, but the strange, "backwards" structure of the vertebrate retina actually improves vision

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Life

Zoologger: The most kick-ass fish in the sea

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Life

It's raining males, if you're a buffalo

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Life

Virgin birth: sharks' secret survival trick

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Life

Zoologger: The most bizarre life story on Earth?

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