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Bizarre fossil with an incredibly long neck was a marine hunter
Tanystropheus had a neck three times the length of its body, and a new analysis of its skull suggests it lived in the sea, where it ambushed prey
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Predators may make prey get smart and grow more brain cells
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Cannibalistic African clawed frog eats tadpoles of its relatives
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Rabbits flee when they smell dead relatives in predators’ droppings
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Call off the grizzly bear trophy hunt, it’s immoral and unscientific
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When a daddy longlegs is attacked by a flatworm things get messy
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Ferocious pack-hunting pseudoscorpions believe in sharing fairly
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Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out
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Ants build a medieval 鈥榯orture rack鈥� to catch grasshoppers
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Neanderthals ambushed cave bears as they awoke from hibernation
Our extinct cousins the Neanderthals seem to have targeted cave bears, which were normally intimidating foes, while they were sleepy and weak from hibernating through the winter
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Beetles escape alive after almost 2 hours in a toad鈥檚 stomach
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Shark-free world? That’s a wish that would come back to bite us
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Great tits avoid bad food after seeing grossed-out friends
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Giant coconut crab sneaks up on a sleeping bird and kills it
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