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Crafty cockatoos learn to use public drinking fountains

Sulphur-crested cockatoos are waiting in line at public drinking fountains in Sydney to have their daily drinks of water in the latest example of cultural evolution in urban birds

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There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened

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There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened

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Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during last ice age peak

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Why birds decorate their nests with weird and unnatural objects

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Flash floods sweep through vital sanctuary for Australian animals

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Honeybees are getting confused by electric pollution from power lines

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Life

The first teeth were sensory organs on the skin of ancient fish

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Reconstruction painting of the track maker Credit: Marcin Ambrozik

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Fossil tracks rewrite history of animals leaving water to live on land

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A juvenile chimpanzee drumming in Bossou, Guinea

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Chimps share 'building blocks of musical rhythm' with humans

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What if we could experience life as another species?

In this latest instalment of our speculative column Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the pros (and cons) of networking our brains with those of other animals

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What are microplastics doing to your brain? We’re starting to find out

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Life

How Greenland sharks live for hundreds of years without going blind

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A giant snail that lives up to its name

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Welcome to a great, straightforward guide to the tree of life

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