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old pic of Okhotsk in Russia

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The Great Northern Expedition: triumph or tragedy?

Peter the Great funded a fabulously expensive expedition to Russia's far east and Alaska. The first account tells a harrowing tale of how it fared

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sloth

Life

Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane

Features

Zombie fungus infects fruit flies and turns them into slaves

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Zombie fungus infects fruit flies and turns them into slaves

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Peccaries

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Sad ‘pigs’ have been filmed apparently mourning a dead friend

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Tortoise

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Giant tortoises are rare today but once roamed four continents

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wildebeest

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Wildebeest no more: The death of Africa's great migrations

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A chicken under a person's arm

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No, the UK didn't vote that animals can't feel pain or emotion

Analysis

Scorpion

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Venom: The show with an unsettling sting in its tale

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Spallanzani

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The ingenious priest who discovered how bats 'see' in the dark

Almost 150 years before anyone recorded their ultrasound calls, Lazzaro Spallanzani’s cunning yet gruesome experiments revealed how bats navigate in darkness

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The tortoise-riding banker who collected the natural world

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Inside the strange world of the Museum of Ordinary Animals

Culture

Life

Malaria parasite makes mosquitoes more likely to suck your blood

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Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food

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