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Brown pebble turns out to be first ever pickled dinosaur brain
The petrified specimen comes from a large plant eater such as Iguanodon, which lived about 133 million years ago, and whose brain was pickled in mud after it died
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Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal
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Chimps, bonobos and orangutans grasp how others view the world
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Don鈥檛 worry, bee happy: Bees found to have emotions and moods
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Hawaiian crows can use sticks as tools but are nearly extinct
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Get inside the collective mind of a genius superorganism
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Endangered dolphin with broken blowhole learns to mouth-breathe
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Genius crow’s tool-bending behaviour may be natural to its kind
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Crows are first animals spotted using tools to carry objects
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Making squirrels count and other dumb animal intelligence tests
What happens when you test animal thinking and sense of self on their own terms? Two books show the very different picture that emerges
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Life
Skull of mini T. rex shows it gained intelligence before size
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Life
Watch brainy zoo animals figure out a box puzzle to get at food
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Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn
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Life
Hive minds: Honeybee intelligence creates a buzz
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