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Life

Here's how we can learn from other animals to create a better Earth

The exhibition Animalesque celebrates what we share with Earth's other species – and offers hope for reforming our relationship with the natural world

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Bottlenose dolphins are splitting into two different species

Life

Bottlenose dolphins are splitting into two different species

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What to expect from the cutting edge of science and tech in 2020

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What to expect from the cutting edge of science and tech in 2020

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What’s it like to be a rabbit?

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What’s it like to be a rabbit?

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Peruvian frog

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Deadly frog fungus now thrives where we thought it couldn’t survive

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You probably score worse than monkeys on questions about the world

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You probably score worse than monkeys on questions about the world

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Sea of Shadows: Film documents demise of the world's smallest porpoise

Life

Sea of Shadows: Film documents demise of the world's smallest porpoise

Culture

World’s largest frog builds its own ponds using heavy rocks

Life

World’s largest frog builds its own ponds using heavy rocks

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Life

Meet Kuimba, the French-born gorilla released into Gabon's rainforest

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Vaquita

Life

There may be just 19 endangered vaquita porpoises left in the world

The vaquita, a small porpoise and the most endangered marine mammal, has long been threatened by fishing nets. A new study says there are just 19 animals left

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Life

The secrets of how sharks survived so many of Earth's mass extinctions

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Life

Beavers, nature’s master engineers, may run wild in Wales again

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Life

Meet the white-tailed eagles making a comeback in the UK

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Life

Baby boom for the kakapo, New Zealand’s critically endangered parrot

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