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A pair of cowpea seed beetles mating

Life

Traumatic beetle sex causes rapid evolutionary arms race

Male seed beetles use sharp spikes on their penises to damage females during sex, but females are evolving thicker tissue to resist them

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Narwhal

Earth

Narwhals could help us measure melting glaciers underwater

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Unique skeleton

Life

Frog skeleton allows them to jump horizontally or vertically

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A stream running through a grassland with a beaver dam across it

Earth

Beaver dams keeps streams cool and protect sensitive fish

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Side-by-side comparison of an Egyptian vulture with and without the mud make-up

Life

Vultures smear their faces in red mud which they use as makeup

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Artist's impression of the large bird-like dinosaur

Life

Eggs four times bigger than ostriches’ reveal a giant dinosaur

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Australian night parrot

Life

Lazarus species: Five cool animals we wrongly believed extinct

Features

Rat on subway platform

Life

Menopause-causing bait is curbing rat populations in New York

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Africa's T. rex

Life

African T. rex was one of last dinosaurs alive before extinction

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bird of paradise

Life

We may have the evolution of beauty completely wrong

Many male animals sport dazzling displays to attract a mate. But a new book says we may have misunderstood Darwin – and this is all about arbitrary aesthetics

Culture

Life

Female dragonflies fake sudden death to avoid male advances

News

Life

Chimps pass on sponge drinking trick like a family tradition

News

Life

The continuing mystery behind the cuteness of tame animals

Culture

Life

Wild bears do the twist to communicate through smelly footprints

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