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Parasitic ants keep evolving to lose their smell and taste genes

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Parasitic ants keep evolving to lose their smell and taste genes

When parasitic ants move into another species’ colony, they outsource foraging to the host ants – which may be why several species of parasitic ants have lost the genes for taste and smell

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Scottish blue tits mostly survive on food from garden bird feeders

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Toxic beetle’s genetics reveals how evolution makes new organs

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Toxic beetle’s genetics reveals how evolution makes new organs

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Common swifts can fly more than 800 kilometres a day during migration

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Common swifts can fly more than 800 kilometres a day during migration

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Female mice that lose a male partner are wary of taking a new one

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Hermit crabs choose by colour when selecting a new shell for a home

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Hermit crabs choose by colour when selecting a new shell for a home

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Rare video of giant squid reveals it stalks jellyfish in deep water

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Rare video of giant squid reveals it stalks jellyfish in deep water

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Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) adult, foraging for food, South Australia, Australia

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Bats don’t have to learn the speed of sound – they’re born knowing it

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Bats don’t have to learn the speed of sound – they’re born knowing it

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Mice on opposite North American coasts evolved the same way

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Mice on opposite North American coasts evolved the same way

In North America, mice in both New York and Alberta are larger than their southern cousins and make large nests that insulate against colder northern winters

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White noise could warn birds to avoid colliding with tall structures

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Honeybees stress each other out by warning about minor parasites

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Male parasitic wasps can detect females inside an infected host fly

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