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Banded mongoose group approaching with curiosity (Mungos mungo). Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. March 2018.

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Inside the complex and extremely violent world of warring mongooses

Banded mongooses have long been used as a model of animal cooperation. Now, researchers in Uganda are starting to get to grips with the harsh realities of their long-running and bloody battles

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Self-assembled colony formed by wild S. muelleri suspended in solution (see Movie 1) https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.10.523506

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Multicellular life may have begun with brief alliances between cells

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Illustratoin of Ignacius dawsonae, a squirrel-like animal in a tree

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Early relatives of primates lived in the Arctic 52 million years ago

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Male and female gibbons sing duets in time with each other

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

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Sloths have double the grip strength of humans and other primates

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Anole lizard on a pole

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

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Ichthyosaur

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Largest ever animal may have been Triassic ichthyosaur super-predator

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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.

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

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A male katydid fossil from the Early Cretaceous period

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Fossils reveal the dinosaur era's changing insect soundscape

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Dinosaur apocalypse

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Diversity helped mammals survive asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

The conventional view of the age of the dinosaurs is that mammals lived in the shadows until the day the asteroid hit, but a new analysis shows they were already evolutionarily primed to take over the world

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Earth

How did so many giant meat-eating dinosaurs co-exist in the Jurassic?

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Ants have evolved to farm plants on at least 15 separate occasions

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

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The sounds of animals thought to be silent...until now

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