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Trilobite

Life

Trilobites used trident-like horns to fight over mates like stags

Three-pronged weapons on the heads of Walliserops fossils suggest that animals first duelled in sexual combat at least 400 million years ago

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A bumblebee flies over a field of flowering heather plants.

Environment

Protected areas in Britain fail to stop loss of insects and spiders

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Fence lizard on sandstone rock at Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park in Chatsworth, California.

Life

Lizards that survived wildfires are more alert to the sound of flames

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Finley, one of the sloths at The Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica. Credit: Ignacio Moya

Life

Sloths have double the grip strength of humans and other primates

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Anole lizard on a pole

Life

Urban lizards have gene mutations that help them adapt to city life

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A jewel damselfish

Life

Reef fish are more placid around islands infested with invasive rats

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Fruit fly

Life

Male flies produce a chemical that makes females sleep in after mating

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Bee on a rape flower

Health

Shortage of pollinators could be killing 427,000 people a year

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Lattice soldierfish

Life

Fish see in the dark thanks to extra layers of rod cells in their eyes

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2FM22K7 The joy is evident on the face of this young orangutan. BORNEO: THIS BRITISH photographer has spent TWENTY years snapping Borneo?s cutest orangutans.

Life

Living in trees may have given great apes vocal skills for consonants

A comparison of consonant-like sounds in great apes suggests an arboreal lifestyle may have been a step towards complex speech in our ancestors

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Health

Lyme disease may spread further by helping ticks survive cold winters

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Life

Male wasps use spiky genitals to defend themselves from predators

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Life

Canada geese return twice as quickly if you try to shoo them away

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Earth

How well do you know your animal poo? Find out with this picture quiz

Features