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An orchid uses a finger-like appendage to pollinate itself
More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been revealed
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We thought we knew emperor penguins 鈥� robots are proving us wrong
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Genetic tweak to three key crops massively boosts their growth
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The bizarre story of a rodent utopia that predicted doom for humanity
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The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate
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Life
New forms of animals made by fusing several comb jellies together
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Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans
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Richard Dawkins’s latest crams gorgeous writing in an ill-fitting box
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A podcast explores how sport is drawing the line between men and women
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Why the underground home of the world鈥檚 weirdest wildlife is in danger
Up to 100,000 extraordinary species, from spiders and beetles to salamanders and fish, live in subterranean caves and cracks. They aren鈥檛 as safe down there as we thought
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Life
Could we merge biologically with the fungal network and live forever?
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Single-celled predator extends its ‘neck’ with the help of origami
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Quantum biology: New clues on how life might make use of weird physics
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Some scientists say insects are conscious 鈥� it doesn’t settle anything
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