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This is how jellyfish can sting you without even touching you

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This is how jellyfish can sting you without even touching you

Upside-down jellyfish release tiny balls of stinging cells that can move through water on their own and survive for days – leaving a network of mucus that can sting you

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rodeo ant

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Rodeo ants that ride on backs of bigger ants discovered in Texas

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Fay Clark

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Gaming with gorillas: Designing puzzles to keep great apes happy

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Don't miss: a chance to play WiFI Wars and revisit the Apollo 8 days

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Don't miss: a chance to play WiFI Wars and revisit the Apollo 8 days

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Natalie Cooper: The life and death of London's blue whale

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Natalie Cooper: The life and death of London's blue whale

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Fish called ‘sarcastic fringehead’ has a wider mouth than body

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Fish called ‘sarcastic fringehead’ has a wider mouth than body

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zebra carriage

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The tortoise-riding banker who collected the natural world

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A tui singing in a tree

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Songbird gets angry when its rivals are brilliant at singing

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platypus swimming

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Five mythical animals that turned out to be real

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The greater mouse-eared bat has a habit of bumping into windows

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Bats crash into windows because of a glitch with their 'sonar'

Until bats get very close, their echolocation makes them “see” smooth surfaces like windows as gaps rather than as a solid material – with impactful results

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Low-ranked female monkeys band together against their leaders

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The porker paradox: A very human dilemma

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Wild tales of stuffy sharks, intimate otters and unloved horses

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Why fast birds, fish and animals are never too small or big

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