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Watch male orb-weaving spiders catapult off females to escape death

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Watch male orb-weaving spiders catapult off females to escape death

For the first time, spiders have been observed escaping sexual cannibalism by flinging themselves away from females, reaching speeds of up to 88.2 centimetres per second

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blind cave tetra

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Blind Mexican cave fish are developing cave-specific accents

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A person at a covid-19 test centre in Newcastle-under-Lyme, UK, on 21 December

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Covid-19 news archive: March 2022

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Shoulder growth may slow during human development to make birth easier

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Common Crossbill

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Male crossbills grow redder feathers when they exercise harder

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How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life

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How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life

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Bat, elephant, frog, lemur

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Genomes of hundreds of extinct species revealed by rewinding evolution

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Ancient mammal skulls

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Mammals grew big after dinosaurs died but their brains stayed small

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Bronze age settlement

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Ancient Britons rapidly evolved to cope with lack of sunlight

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An ostrich (Struthio camelus) on a dune against a blue sky, Kalahari desert, South Africa ; Shutterstock ID 2129799884; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Ostrich necks act as a radiator to control their head temperature

Infrared images of ostrich necks show that they help the birds keep their heads cool in warm temperatures, lowering their heat stress and helping them reproduce more successfully

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Family tree of extinct apes reveals our early evolutionary history

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Covid-19 news archive: February 2022

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Sorry Darwin, but it turns out promiscuity benefits females too

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Creatures living in our cities are evolving in some surprising ways

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