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Queen ant makes males of another species for daughters to mate with
Bizarrely, Iberian harvester ant queens lay eggs that turn into male builder harvester ants, and some of her offspring are hybrids of the two species
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Ancient crocodile relative could have ripped dinosaurs apart
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Armoured dinosaur’s ‘crazy’ spikes weren’t just for defence
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Thylacine’s genome provides clues about why it went extinct
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Long-lost sailback shark rediscovered after more than 50 years
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Documenting the battle to protect New Zealand’s endangered birds
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Artificial superfood for bees boosts colony reproduction
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These ants are one of the most effective teams in the natural world
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Extreme heat is driving dramatic declines in tropical birds
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Cockatoos have an impressively wide repertoire of dance moves
A proclivity for dancing seems to be found in at least 10 species of cockatoo, and the birds will even jive to white noise or a financial podcast
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Humans
Your pet dog鈥檚 ancestor was a fierce, wild animal. How was it tamed?
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New-to-science stick insect is the heaviest ever found in Australia
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Puppy and cheetah cub make unlikely pair of step-siblings
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Thousands of seadragons are dying in Australia’s toxic algal bloom
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