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marine biology

Robin on a nest

Life

Male robins can guess and satisfy their partner’s food cravings

Female birds incubating eggs get an itch for specific foods, and their male partners somehow know what they want and deliver it to them

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A stuffed thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger

Life

Odds that Tasmanian tigers are still alive are 1 in 1.6 trillion

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First living example of giant ancient mollusc found in the wild

Life

First living example of giant ancient mollusc found in the wild

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The bright lights of big cities help blackbirds thrive

Life

The bright lights of big cities help blackbirds thrive

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Sea urchin emits a cloud of venomous jaws to deter predators

Life

Sea urchin emits a cloud of venomous jaws to deter predators

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Gene editing opens doors to seedless fruit with no need for bees

Life

Gene editing opens doors to seedless fruit with no need for bees

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Dust from the Carmichael coal mine has spread widely

Earth

It’s not too late to save Great Barrier Reef from politicians

Analysis

fetus

Life

Why the "bisexuality hormone" study is not as simple as it seems

Analysis

Life could exist up to 10 kilometres beneath the sea floor

Earth

Life could exist up to 10 kilometres beneath the sea floor

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Sabre-toothed tigers in ice-age Los Angeles had bad back trouble

Life

Sabre-toothed tigers in ice-age Los Angeles had bad back trouble

Back injuries identified from thousands of fossilised bones probably occurred when the cat wrestled large prey such as bison and camels

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Earth

Mass bleaching hits Great Barrier Reef for second year in a row

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Life

Giant viruses may just be small viruses that stole hosts’ genes

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Life

How smaller snakes strangle bigger snakes and swallow them whole

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Life

Squishy robotic manta ray flaps its wings to spy in the ocean

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