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marine biology

Extinct squid relative

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Squid evolved in marine wars more than 100 million years ago

Evolution of jawed vertebrates and bony fish created evolutionary pressure that boosted cephalopod diversification some 100 million years ago

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Fingernails on a blackboard

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The feeling you get when nails scratch a blackboard has a name

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Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are

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Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are

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Altruism

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Does a networked world need a new approach to doing good?

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great auk

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Resurrecting nature: Extinct is not forever

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octopus

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The 1830s seamstress who solved Aristotle’s octopus mystery

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A turtle's eye

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Mystery eye disease is latest blow for Australia’s sick turtles

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Platythyrea and Strumigenys ants

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Big builder ants and tiny guard ants live together in one nest

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Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material

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Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material

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Woolly mammoth

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Can we grow woolly mammoths in the lab? George Church hopes so

We may only be two years away from creating hybrid mammoth embryos, but that would only be the first step on a very long road towards resurrecting the animal

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Metabolic switch may bring on chronic fatigue syndrome

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Deep-sea squid points a big, bulging eye up and a tiny eye down

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400 pilot whales stranded on New Zealand’s ‘whale trap’ beach

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New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride

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