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Frogs have acquired DNA from snakes with the help of parasites

Horizontal DNA transfer, once thought to be a rare event, has occurred between snakes and frogs at least 54 times in the past 85 million years

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Dog hair hormone levels can tell us how stressful shelters are

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rhesus macaque with her two children and sister

Life

Brain regions linked to empathy bigger in monkeys with more friends

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Crows may owe their intelligence to an abundance of certain neurons

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Rare albino turtle discovered in India

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Rare albino turtle discovered in India

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Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) in flight, Mexico

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Vampire bats adapted to drinking blood by shedding several genes

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woman with pigeons

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Wild Wild Life newsletter: The world’s most controversial animals

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Type specimen of Hanyusuchus sinensis from the Bronze Age of China (above), and life restoration (below: drawn by Hikaru Amemiya).

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A 6-metre-long crocodile relative lived in China during the Bronze Age

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The parthenogenetic mouse and the offspring. The parthenogenetic mouse was generated by targeted epigenetic rewriting of multiple imprinting control regions. The parthenogenetic mouse exhibited normal reproductive performance as an adult.

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Mouse pups born from unfertilised eggs through genetic manipulation

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The 'Cambrian explosion' saw the emergence of many animals we recognise today

Earth

Burst of animal evolution altered chemical make-up of Earth's mantle

The Cambrian explosion 500 million years ago saw a huge variety of animals evolve – and also led to carbon being buried in the seabed and ultimately carried into the planet’s mantle

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Virus outbreak in wild boars led to more oak trees in Polish forest

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Life

Tyrannosaurus rex may actually be three separate species

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Life

Elephant seals seem to have precise mental maps for navigating home

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Life

Mosquitoes learn to avoid pesticides after just one non-lethal dose

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