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European brown bear

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Female brown bears hang out near humans to keep cubs safe from males

Bear mothers who keep their cubs for longer tend to live closer to people – perhaps as a way to avoid males who would drive their offspring away

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red wood ants

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Ants trapped for years in old Soviet nuclear bunker became cannibals

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The felixer trap

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A laser-sighted toxic goo gun is killing feral cats in Australia

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Lascaux II replica of a Lascaux cave painting. These are horse and cow figures in the central gallery. The original Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963. The full-scale Lascaux II replica opened nearby in 1983. The Lascaux cave paintings in south-western France, around 17,000 years old, were painted by Cro-Magnon man, an early European culture of modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens), using red, brown and yellow ochre, and black manganese dioxide. They may have had religious and artistic significance. Photographed in 2010.

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Stone Age artists were obsessed with horses and we don’t know why

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leaf-like rangeomorphs

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The bizarre plant-like animals that say life’s big bang never happened

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Indian elephant mother with young drinking in water a

Life

Female Asian elephants mysteriously stop reproducing later in life

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David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

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David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

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Shore crab

Life

Crabs can learn and remember their way through a complex maze

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The best of the 2019 Wildlife Photographer of the Year winning photos

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The best of the 2019 Wildlife Photographer of the Year winning photos

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Nightjars time their epic migration flights using a lunar calendar

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Nightjars time their epic migration flights using a lunar calendar

Nightjars are the first animal found to time migration by the moon, using its phases to know when to take flight on the journey from northern Europe to sub-Saharan Africa

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Life

Are experiments on how animals think ever justified?

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Life

Want to regrow organs and defy cancer? Just copy these awesome animals

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Life

Experiments show us how animal minds work – but should we do them?

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Life

Crypt-keeper wasps can control the minds of 7 other species of wasp

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