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Long penises help hermit crabs avoid being robbed during sex
Some male hermit crabs have unusually long penises. This could be so that they can protect their homes whilst having sex
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How hagfish can make enough slime to clog a shark’s jaws in seconds
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Dolphins unintentionally poisoning offspring with banned chemicals
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Millions of years ago a massive whale-eating whale roamed the seas
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Crows can guess the weight of an object by watching it sway in wind
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Core set of genes explain why some animals stick to one mate at a time
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Rabbits that don’t eat their own faeces are small and weak
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Leafcutter ants have their own landfill sites that emit greenhouse gas
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Lost ‘Darwinia’ islands could be origin of species in the Galapagos
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Cannibalistic African clawed frog eats tadpoles of its relatives
The African clawed frog likes to dine on its own tadpoles 鈥� but it prefers those belonging to the endangered Cape platanna frog
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Crayfish experience something like anxiety when they shed their armour
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Scuba-diving lizard can stay underwater for at least 16 minutes
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How the right Christmas lunch can help save Earth from climate change
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2018鈥檚 weirdest stories: Friendly horses, toddler robots and moonmoons
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