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Reindeer riddle: How do you tell caribou apart?

Studying indigenous names for the animals may help us clear up a decades-long mix-up over caribou classification and reverse population decline

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Red deer on Rum in Scotland

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First evidence that wild mammals benefit from bigger brains

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Monkeys should be able to talk just like us – so why don't they?

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Monkeys should be able to talk just like us – so why don't they?

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Fish rapidly adapt to pollution thousands of times lethal levels

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Fish rapidly adapt to pollution thousands of times lethal levels

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Cat watches white mouse emerge from hole in the wall

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Brain cell transplant helps fearful mice overcome anxiety

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Mosquito fish

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Longer ‘penis’ drives evolution of bigger brains in female fish

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Super-you: The mutant powers you get from outsider genes

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Super-you: Your body is a nation of trillions

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Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science

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Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science

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Bees of the sea: Tiny crustaceans pollinate underwater plants

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Bees of the sea: Tiny crustaceans pollinate underwater plants

Seagrass pollen doesn’t just ride the tides - the grains of at least one species hitchhike on undersea invertebrates

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World's highest plants discovered growing 6km above sea level

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Zap to the brain alters libido in unique sex study

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UK’s first three-parent babies likely to be conceived in 2017

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Up close with the giant teeth of the deep-sea fangtooth

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