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marine biology

A soldierfish with its lachrymal sabre ready for combat

Life

These fish hide fluorescent switchblades in their faces

We've only just discovered that many stonefish can flip out a spiny bone in their faces when predators attack, in addition to having highly venomous spines

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Life

Species with big sex differences are more likely to die out

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fetes

Life

Making babies: How to create human embryos with no egg or sperm

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Wasps drum with their stomachs to tell each other about food

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Wasps drum with their stomachs to tell each other about food

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Palm trees have been spotted changing sex for the first time

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Palm trees have been spotted changing sex for the first time

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animals artwork

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Biology's moonshot: The mission to decode the DNA of all life

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Virtuoso bowhead whales constantly make up new songs

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Virtuoso bowhead whales constantly make up new songs

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Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef

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Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef

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GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

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GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

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The frogs bouncing back after almost being wiped out by disease

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The frogs bouncing back after almost being wiped out by disease

A few amphibian species in Panama are recovering from near-extinction, after apparently evolving resistance to the deadly chytrid fungus

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Life

Dog brain scans show if they are looking at a happy or sad face

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Life

How birds focus even with eyes on opposite sides of their heads

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Life

Neanderthals ambushed cave bears as they awoke from hibernation

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Much of nature is near collapse and that means society is too

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