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Australian night parrot

Life

Lazarus species: Five cool animals we wrongly believed extinct

A mysterious elephant, a fungal-apocalypse-surviving frog and a plump, ground-dwelling, nocturnal budgie were all written off before coming back from the dead

Features

Captive breeding is a final roll of the dice for the vaquita

Life

Captive breeding is a final roll of the dice for the vaquita

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Parasitic robot controls turtle it’s riding by giving it snacks

Life

Parasitic robot controls turtle it’s riding by giving it snacks

News

cormorant catching a rainbow trout

Life

Parasite living inside fish eyeball controls its behaviour

News

An electron microscope image of a mitochondrion

Life

The energy generators inside our cells reach a sizzling 50°C

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Immune war with donor cells after transplant may wipe out HIV

News

silver fox

Life

The continuing mystery behind the cuteness of tame animals

Culture

Moth’s disguise is so good, spiders love it instead of eating it

Life

Moth’s disguise is so good, spiders love it instead of eating it

News

UK is failing to protect its marine areas

Earth

UK does more to protect marine areas overseas than at home

News

A white strand of a hair-like bacterium

Life

Weird, hairy microbes discovered on volcano soon after eruption

Mysterious mats of bacteria, dubbed Venus’s hair, have been found thriving on a volcano near the Canary Islands after it erupted and wiped out other living things

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Life

The incredible naked mole rat can survive with hardly any oxygen

News

Earth

Marine life is rubbish... at least in these pictures

Regulars

Life

Male robins can guess and satisfy their partner’s food cravings

News

Life

Odds that Tasmanian tigers are still alive are 1 in 1.6 trillion

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