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Male Manogea porracea with egg sacs

Life

The devoted spider dads who fix up nurseries for their babies

Male spiders from Brazil build dome-shape homes, fix silk nurseries and actively defend their offspring – a unique behaviour among solitary spiders

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A researcher holds a force probe, which a large crab is grasping in its claw

Life

Coconut crab’s bone-crushing grip is 10 times stronger than ours

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A close-up of the spider that looks like a leaf

Life

Masquerading spider looks like living and dead leaves at once

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A Greenland shark

Earth

World’s oldest vertebrate is a shark that may live for 500 years

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A Pheidole drogon minor worker

Earth

Spiky new ant species is named after Game of Thrones dragons

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Saola

Life

Meet the world’s cutest and most endangered animals

Features

A butterfly feeding on bamboo nectar

Life

Back-stabbing butterflies rob the ants that once protected them

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Jackals feeding at the local garbage dump on Pelješac Peninsula, Croatia

Life

Invasive trash-eating jackals save Europe €2 million a year

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See the best new species discovered over the past year

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See the best new species discovered over the past year

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A time-lapse photo showing a hoverfly larva making its way through the sticky leaves of a sundew plant

Life

Carnivorous plant conned out of a meal by cunning fly larvae

It's a fly in the sundew's ointment. A species of fly larvae have adapted to wade unscathed through the plant's deadly juices, to steal the insects it catches

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Life

Cute prairie dogs are serial killers savaging ground squirrels

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Life

Bison return to forests across Europe as part of mass rewilding

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Life

Ghostly deep sea octopus filmed at record depth of 4290 metres

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Life

The secret of beetles that waterski so fast they vanish

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