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Cockatoo tool use

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Wild cockatoos make "cutlery" tools from tree branches

These wild Goffin’s cockatoos whittle tree branches into utensils that they use to open and dig into tropical fruit pits

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F0PBYM Mediterranean checkered scorpion (Mesobuthus gibbosus) on rock, The Peloponnese, Greece

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Scorpions have strange joints that can simultaneously bend and twist

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Quiz: Can you identify these UK birds from their songs?

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Quiz: Can you identify these UK birds from their songs?

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Ant in the outdoors

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How ants use soil physics to excavate metre-long tunnels

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Giant anteater

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Giant anteaters are forced to roam in search of cooling forests

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Land-dwelling turtles from the Cretaceous period had extra-tough eggs

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Why do cats purr?

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Why do cats purr?

Microscopic calcite structures reveal the protein skeleton of an ancient sponge

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Sponge fossils suggest animals already existed 890 million years ago

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Galapagos tortoises use their self-destructing cells to avoid cancer

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Galapagos tortoises use their self-destructing cells to avoid cancer

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sea otter

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Sea otters use muscles to chemically generate heat without shivering

Without a thick layer of blubber to insulate them, sea otters instead rely on their muscles to generate heat directly rather than via shivering

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Can we use nudge theory to help endangered animals save themselves?

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Extinct Sicilian elephant lost 8000 kilograms as it evolved and shrank

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Seagull eggs in the UK have been contaminated with plastic additives

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Complex social lives of orcas revealed by drone observations

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