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How Astonishing Zika Virus Images Were Made With a Nobel-Prize Winning Technique

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How Astonishing Zika Virus Images Were Made With a Nobel-Prize Winning Technique

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This Bizarre Fish Hides A Nasty Switchblade On Its Cheek

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This Bizarre Fish Hides A Nasty Switchblade On Its Cheek

Director Of ‘Lab-Grown’ Meat At Controversial Food Producer Leaves To Start New Company

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Director Of ‘Lab-Grown’ Meat At Controversial Food Producer Leaves To Start New Company

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These Superb Antarctic Veggies Are A Tasty Preview For A Menu On Mars

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These Superb Antarctic Veggies Are A Tasty Preview For A Menu On Mars

You’ve Never Seen Herpes Like This Before

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You’ve Never Seen Herpes Like This Before

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Fossilised Ichthyosaur Was Pregnant With Octuplets When She Died

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Fossilised Ichthyosaur Was Pregnant With Octuplets When She Died

Why Neanderthals Had Faces That Were So Different From Ours

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Why Neanderthals Had Faces That Were So Different From Ours

Dark Splotches On Venus Could Be Signs Of Life

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Dark Splotches On Venus Could Be Signs Of Life

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Watch Sea Turtles Awkwardly Try To Use Their Flippers As Arms

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Simulation May Finally Explain Why Knuckle Cracking Makes That Awful Sound

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Simulation May Finally Explain Why Knuckle Cracking Makes That Awful Sound

Mother-Son Orca Pair Commits Infanticide In Oceanic Shakespearean Drama

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Mother-Son Orca Pair Commits Infanticide In Oceanic Shakespearean Drama

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More Than 140 Whales Are Dead After Mass Stranding In Australia

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More Than 140 Whales Are Dead After Mass Stranding In Australia

First-Ever Footage Of Anglerfish Mating Is As Horrifying As You’d Imagine

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First-Ever Footage Of Anglerfish Mating Is As Horrifying As You’d Imagine

‘Alien’ Mummy Found In Atacama Desert Is Actually A Tiny, Mutated Human

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‘Alien’ Mummy Found In Atacama Desert Is Actually A Tiny, Mutated Human

Parents Are Still Reluctant To Give Peanuts To Infants, Despite New Guidelines

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Parents Are Still Reluctant To Give Peanuts To Infants, Despite New Guidelines

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Ancient Human Groups Mated With The Mysterious Denisovans At Least Twice

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Ancient Human Groups Mated With The Mysterious Denisovans At Least Twice

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What’s The Filthiest Animal?

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What’s The Filthiest Animal?

Florida Wildlife Officials Are Killing Invasive Iguanas By Smashing In Their Skulls

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Florida Wildlife Officials Are Killing Invasive Iguanas By Smashing In Their Skulls

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These Hawaiian Stick Spiders Have A Profound Case Of Evolutionary Déjà Vu

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These Hawaiian Stick Spiders Have A Profound Case Of Evolutionary Déjà Vu

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Termite Armies Send Their Oldest Soldiers To Die First

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Termite Armies Send Their Oldest Soldiers To Die First

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First Observation Of Rigour Mortis In Worms Could Help Us Understand Death By Old Age

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First Observation Of Rigour Mortis In Worms Could Help Us Understand Death By Old Age

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More Evidence That Dogs ‘See’ The World With Their Powerful Noses

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More Evidence That Dogs ‘See’ The World With Their Powerful Noses

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How Do You Hear Without ‘Ears’?

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How Do You Hear Without ‘Ears’?

Termites Are Finally Being Recognised For What They Really Are: Social Cockroaches

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Termites Are Finally Being Recognised For What They Really Are: Social Cockroaches

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Huge Advancement In MRI Tech Captures Teeny Molecules With Incredible Resolution

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Huge Advancement In MRI Tech Captures Teeny Molecules With Incredible Resolution

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New Species Of Tardigrade Discovered In Japanese Parking Lot

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New Species Of Tardigrade Discovered In Japanese Parking Lot

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Experiment Shows Microbes Could Thrive On Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

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Experiment Shows Microbes Could Thrive On Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

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Ancient Elephants And Mastodons Were Totally Down With Inter-Species Boning

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Ancient Elephants And Mastodons Were Totally Down With Inter-Species Boning

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There’s No Such Thing As A Truly ‘Wild’ Horse Anymore

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There’s No Such Thing As A Truly ‘Wild’ Horse Anymore

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The Fungi That Cause Athlete’s Foot Have Given Up On Sex

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The Fungi That Cause Athlete’s Foot Have Given Up On Sex

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Rare Yellow Cardinal Spotted In Alabama

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Rare Yellow Cardinal Spotted In Alabama

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Why Scientists Taught Monkeys To Associate Brand Logos With Genitals

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In A ‘Key Milestone’, Scientists Get A Clear Look At Huntington’s Disease Protein

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In A ‘Key Milestone’, Scientists Get A Clear Look At Huntington’s Disease Protein

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First Evidence That Microplastics Travel Up The Food Chain And Into Seal Bellies

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First Evidence That Microplastics Travel Up The Food Chain And Into Seal Bellies

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Model Brains-On-A-Chip Reveal The Physics Of Brain Folding

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Model Brains-On-A-Chip Reveal The Physics Of Brain Folding

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Earth’s First Land Plants May Have Sprouted 80 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought

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Earth’s First Land Plants May Have Sprouted 80 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought

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These Freaky Fish Can Turn Their Eyes Into Torches

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These Freaky Fish Can Turn Their Eyes Into Torches

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Transgender Woman Breastfeeds Her Baby After Experimental Treatment

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Transgender Woman Breastfeeds Her Baby After Experimental Treatment

Picture Of Single Trapped Atom Wins UK Science Photography Prize

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Picture Of Single Trapped Atom Wins UK Science Photography Prize

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Cautious Optimism As Scientists Grow Human Eggs From Immature Cells In The Lab

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Cautious Optimism As Scientists Grow Human Eggs From Immature Cells In The Lab

Snakes Could Be Spreading Flowers By Pooping Mice

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Snakes Could Be Spreading Flowers By Pooping Mice

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Swallowed Bombardier Beetles Spew Hot Chemicals From Their Butt To Make Predators Vomit

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Swallowed Bombardier Beetles Spew Hot Chemicals From Their Butt To Make Predators Vomit

Scientists Sequence Human Genome With Handheld USB Device

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Scientists Sequence Human Genome With Handheld USB Device

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Lawsuit Alleges University Of Pittsburgh Covered Up Escaped Lab Monkey Infected With ‘Select Agent’

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Lawsuit Alleges University Of Pittsburgh Covered Up Escaped Lab Monkey Infected With ‘Select Agent’

Frog Species Breaks Record For Most Sex Chromosomes In A Vertebrate

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Frog Species Breaks Record For Most Sex Chromosomes In A Vertebrate

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The ‘Shower Rat’ Is Very Obviously Not Showering

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The ‘Shower Rat’ Is Very Obviously Not Showering

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Holy Crap These Leech Cocoons Are Incredible

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Holy Crap These Leech Cocoons Are Incredible

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How Evolution Turned Lions And Cheetahs Into Such Formidable Killing Machines

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How Evolution Turned Lions And Cheetahs Into Such Formidable Killing Machines

Scientists Slammed For Synthesising A Smallpox-Like Virus In The Lab

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Scientists Slammed For Synthesising A Smallpox-Like Virus In The Lab

Fool’s Gold Suggests Ancient Life In ‘Oxygen Oases’ Far Before There Was Atmospheric Oxygen

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Fool’s Gold Suggests Ancient Life In ‘Oxygen Oases’ Far Before There Was Atmospheric Oxygen

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Our Universe Could Be Littered With Alien Viruses, And We Should Be Looking For Them

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Our Universe Could Be Littered With Alien Viruses, And We Should Be Looking For Them

New AI System Predicts How Long Patients Will Live With Startling Accuracy

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New AI System Predicts How Long Patients Will Live With Startling Accuracy

Here’s Why Most Animals Don’t Use Their Tails As Weapons

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Here’s Why Most Animals Don’t Use Their Tails As Weapons

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Here’s Why 200,000 Saiga Antelope Dropped Dead In Kazakhstan In 2015

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Here’s Why 200,000 Saiga Antelope Dropped Dead In Kazakhstan In 2015

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Christmas Island’s Millions Of Migrating Baby Crabs Are A Bonkers Sight To Behold

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Christmas Island’s Millions Of Migrating Baby Crabs Are A Bonkers Sight To Behold

Scientists Develop Important Tool For Connecting Poo Bacteria To Health

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Scientists Develop Important Tool For Connecting Poo Bacteria To Health

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Experimenter’s Gender Can Skew Science

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Experimenter’s Gender Can Skew Science

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Discovery Of Extinct Burrowing Bat Tells Mysterious Story About New Zealand

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Discovery Of Extinct Burrowing Bat Tells Mysterious Story About New Zealand

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Avoid Monkeys In Florida Because They Could Give You Killer Herpes

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Avoid Monkeys In Florida Because They Could Give You Killer Herpes

These Birds Evolved Feathers So Dark, They’re Like A ‘Black Hole’

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These Birds Evolved Feathers So Dark, They’re Like A ‘Black Hole’

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Life Could Have Evolved From These Ancient Chemical Reactions

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Life Could Have Evolved From These Ancient Chemical Reactions

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A Common Sweetener May Be Worsening The Spread Of These Deadly Bacteria

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A Common Sweetener May Be Worsening The Spread Of These Deadly Bacteria

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This Could Be The Oldest Photosynthesising, Sex-Having Organism

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This Could Be The Oldest Photosynthesising, Sex-Having Organism

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We Spoke With The Italian Woman Who Can’t Feel Pain

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We Spoke With The Italian Woman Who Can’t Feel Pain

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Man Had So Many Prostate Orgasms He Couldn’t Stop, According To New Paper

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Man Had So Many Prostate Orgasms He Couldn’t Stop, According To New Paper

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Scientists Think They Have Found A Gene For Bad Breath

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Scientists Think They Have Found A Gene For Bad Breath

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The World’s Loudest Fish Is Now A Victim Of Its Own Unique Talent

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The World’s Loudest Fish Is Now A Victim Of Its Own Unique Talent

George Dvorsky

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This Cockatiel Can Sing An Apple Ringtone Perfectly And It’s Freaking Us Out

George Dvorsky

Quest To Find The World’s Oldest Fossils Intensifies With New Result

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Quest To Find The World’s Oldest Fossils Intensifies With New Result

George Dvorsky

Behold The Most Hilarious Wildlife Photos Of 2017

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Behold The Most Hilarious Wildlife Photos Of 2017

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Two African Penguins Are About To Hatch And You Can Watch Live

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Two African Penguins Are About To Hatch And You Can Watch Live

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New Evidence From Ancient Amber Shows Dinosaurs Were Plagued By Ticks

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New Evidence From Ancient Amber Shows Dinosaurs Were Plagued By Ticks

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A Single Bird Caused A $296,000 Boost To The US Economy

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A Single Bird Caused A $296,000 Boost To The US Economy

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DIY Bed Bug Treatment Attempt Accidentally Results In Massive Fire

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DIY Bed Bug Treatment Attempt Accidentally Results In Massive Fire

For Fish Penises, Bigger Isn’t Always Better

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For Fish Penises, Bigger Isn’t Always Better

Jake Buehler

Scientists Added Two New Letters To DNA’s Code

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Scientists Added Two New Letters To DNA’s Code

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Houseflies Are More Capable Of Spreading Disease Than We Realised

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Houseflies Are More Capable Of Spreading Disease Than We Realised

George Dvorsky

Yep, It’s Still Not A Good Idea To Eat Raw Cookie Dough

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Yep, It’s Still Not A Good Idea To Eat Raw Cookie Dough

George Dvorsky

Head Transplant Doctor Claims First Successful Human Head Transplant… On A Corpse

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Head Transplant Doctor Claims First Successful Human Head Transplant… On A Corpse

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Decapitated Male Mantis Still Roots

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Decapitated Male Mantis Still Roots

New Study Shows What Would Happen If The US Went Vegan

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New Study Shows What Would Happen If The US Went Vegan

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Crested Pigeons Sound The Alarm With Whistling Wings

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Crested Pigeons Sound The Alarm With Whistling Wings

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Extinct Giant Otter Ruled With Powerful Jaws

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Extinct Giant Otter Ruled With Powerful Jaws

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Mammals Literally Came Out Of The Dark Once The Dinos Were Gone

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Mammals Literally Came Out Of The Dark Once The Dinos Were Gone

Why Did Male Mammoths Get Stuck In Traps More Often Than Female Mammoths?

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Why Did Male Mammoths Get Stuck In Traps More Often Than Female Mammoths?

There’s A New Species Of Orangutan And It’s Already In Danger

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There’s A New Species Of Orangutan And It’s Already In Danger

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Thousands Of Bluebottles Wash Ashore In NSW: ‘It Was The Stuff Of Nightmares’

This Huge, Four-Horned Mammal Is Rewriting Giraffe Prehistory

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This Huge, Four-Horned Mammal Is Rewriting Giraffe Prehistory

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Scientists Identify A Whole New Way Of Catching Prey: Kleptopredation

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Scientists Identify A Whole New Way Of Catching Prey: Kleptopredation

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Working Out In A Group Is Better For Your Mental Wellbeing Than Going At It Alone, Suggests Study

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Working Out In A Group Is Better For Your Mental Wellbeing Than Going At It Alone, Suggests Study

Pot Users Have More Sex, But It’s A Lot More Complicated Than That

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Pot Users Have More Sex, But It’s A Lot More Complicated Than That

New Evidence Suggests Doctors Are Misdiagnosing A Third Type Of Diabetes

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New Evidence Suggests Doctors Are Misdiagnosing A Third Type Of Diabetes

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Scientists Capture Rare Footage Of Spooky-Arse Arctic Jellyfish

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Scientists Capture Rare Footage Of Spooky-Arse Arctic Jellyfish

Traces Of Alzheimer’s Disease Detected In Wild Animal For The First Time

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Traces Of Alzheimer’s Disease Detected In Wild Animal For The First Time

Backyard Bird Feeders May Be Altering The Course Of Evolution

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Backyard Bird Feeders May Be Altering The Course Of Evolution

Scientists Discover A Tiny Monster In Canada’s Arctic Ice

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Scientists Discover A Tiny Monster In Canada’s Arctic Ice

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This Star Wars-Inspired Simulation Of Human Reproduction Is Awesome

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This Star Wars-Inspired Simulation Of Human Reproduction Is Awesome

Here Are The Best Wildlife Photos Of 2017

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Here Are The Best Wildlife Photos Of 2017

Scientists Document ‘Opportunistic’ Alligators Eating Sharks

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Scientists Document ‘Opportunistic’ Alligators Eating Sharks

Captive Orca Whales Are So Bored They’re Destroying Their Teeth

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Captive Orca Whales Are So Bored They’re Destroying Their Teeth