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Two elephants embracing with their trunks through the bars of an enclosure

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Elephants may remember the smell of a relative's dung for 12 years

African elephants in captivity reacted to the smell of relatives they had not seen for years by flapping their ears and making rumbling sounds

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Naked mole rat

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Naked mole rats reveal biological secrets of lifelong fertility

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Tiktaalik, an early fish that crawled on land

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Spine of early crawling fish was becoming more like a land animal's

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Loggerhead turtle

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Turtles stranded on UK beaches after storms send them off course

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crustacean larvae

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Prawn larvae conceal their eyes with reflectors to hide from predators

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A beekeeper tends to a honeybee hive

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Rise in urban beekeeping may be crowding out native bee species

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South American Sea Lions

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Researchers ‘cannot rule out’ bird flu spreading between sea lions

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rock bunting

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Avalanches create habitats for a wider range of birds in the Alps

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Shark bay bandicoot

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Bandicoots can be trained to flee predators more quickly

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This is an artistic reconstruction of the Guiyang Biota. Guiyang Biota represents the oldest known Mesozoic lagerst?tte found so far. Guiyang Biota represents one of the earliest complete marine ecosystems after the great dying in Earth history. Guiyang Biota contains representatives of all trophic levels, especially abundant fish and decapod fossils, including about 1 m length coelacanths, and the earliest occurrences of lobsters and shrimps, extending the earliest record forward by 1.5 million years.

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Sea life recovered from Permian mass extinction faster than we thought

A diverse set of fossils from China shows that a complex marine ecosystem existed 251 million years ago, shortly after a mass extinction wiped out most complex life on Earth

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Dogs that eat raw food rather than kibble have better gut health

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Orca mothers forgo future offspring to care for their full-grown sons

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What a meandering moose says about US wildlife protection efforts

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Monk parakeets have unique ‘voices’ that may identify friends and foes

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