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F0PBYM Mediterranean checkered scorpion (Mesobuthus gibbosus) on rock, The Peloponnese, Greece

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Scorpions have strange joints that can simultaneously bend and twist

Scorpions have unusual joints in their tails that can twist and bend at the same time, and this design could be used for flexible robots

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Quiz: Can you identify these UK birds from their songs?

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Quiz: Can you identify these UK birds from their songs?

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Ant in the outdoors

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How ants use soil physics to excavate metre-long tunnels

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Giant anteater

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Giant anteaters are forced to roam in search of cooling forests

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Land-dwelling turtles from the Cretaceous period had extra-tough eggs

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Why do cats purr?

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Why do cats purr?

Microscopic calcite structures reveal the protein skeleton of an ancient sponge

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Sponge fossils suggest animals already existed 890 million years ago

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Galapagos tortoises use their self-destructing cells to avoid cancer

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Galapagos tortoises use their self-destructing cells to avoid cancer

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sea otter

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Sea otters use muscles to chemically generate heat without shivering

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Can we use nudge theory to help endangered animals save themselves?

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Can we use nudge theory to help endangered animals save themselves?

Endangered wildlife often doesn't have time to evolve to rapidly changing environments. Now conservationists are manipulating animal behaviour, using "nudge" techniques akin to those designed to influence humans

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Extinct Sicilian elephant lost 8000 kilograms as it evolved and shrank

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Seagull eggs in the UK have been contaminated with plastic additives

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Complex social lives of orcas revealed by drone observations

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Female seahorses cheat on their mate when they can no longer smell him

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