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Mystery of Australia's five-legged animals cracked

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Mystery of Australia's five-legged animals cracked

The need to hop fast in open habitats seems to have driven the evolution of an odd habit in some of Australia's iconic marsupials, they use their tail as a fifth leg

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Newly discovered dwarf lemurs are totally unafraid of humans

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Newly discovered dwarf lemurs are totally unafraid of humans

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Bird flies 16,000-kilometre Pacific circuit for no clear reason

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Bird flies 16,000-kilometre Pacific circuit for no clear reason

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New species of titi monkey discovered in remote Peruvian forest

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New species of titi monkey discovered in remote Peruvian forest

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What if … Intelligence is a dead end?

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What if … Intelligence is a dead end?

Features

Nature's strangest families: Why animals adopt

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Nature's strangest families: Why animals adopt

Features

Megafauna extinction: DNA evidence pins blame on climate change

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Megafauna extinction: DNA evidence pins blame on climate change

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Four-legged fossil holds secret of snake's slithering origins

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Four-legged fossil holds secret of snake's slithering origins

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Head and body lice splice their identical genes differently

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Head and body lice splice their identical genes differently

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Strewth – Australian genetic link to founding of the Americas

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Strewth – Australian genetic link to founding of the Americas

Deep in the Amazon, geneticists have found an unexpected Australian twist to the story of how the Americas were founded

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Earth

Fish flick genetic switch to dodge climate change disaster

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Life

Archerfish up their game to outgun rivals stealing their catch

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Life

Fussy eating may have doomed ape-like humans

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Life

Zoologger: The sex-addicted tiny lemur with giant testicles

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