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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

Bush crickets from the Triassic era onwards evolved high-frequency songs to avoid being heard by predators

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Two rhinos grazing

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Endangered white rhinos' cells turned into sperm and egg stem cells

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honey badger eating beeswax

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A surprising number of African animals eat beeswax

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A nut wedged in the fork of a tree branch

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Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches

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Artist’s reconstruction of Janavis finalidens, a very large marine bird from the late Cretaceous

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Ancient bird with a movable beak rewrites the story of avian evolution

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Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii) Credit: Jens Rydell

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Bats and death metal singers use the same throat structure to growl

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The Amami spiny rat

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A rat without a Y chromosome could be a glimpse of our genetic future

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Whatcheeria

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Ancient predator was one of first vertebrates to grow fast while young

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Young mice and mother

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Newborn female mice live longer if they smell older females' urine

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Great bustards

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Bustards may use plants to treat STIs during the breeding season

Male great bustards seek out two toxic plants during the birds' breeding season, and extracts from these plants have been found to kill common pathogens in the lab

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Oldest army ant found in 35-million-year-old Baltic amber

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Gigantic turtle from the dinosaur era was almost 4 metres long

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Honeybees are living half as long as they were 50 years ago

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Gene drive could be used to wipe out invasive mice on islands

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