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embryo

Life

Embryonic education: How learning begins long before birth

Animals developing inside eggs and uteruses glean so much about the outside world that we need to question behaviour we think of as instinctive

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Stuffed parrots

Life

London show confirms the natural world is dead. Good riddance

Culture

Spitting archerfish shoot at prey above and beneath the water

Life

Spitting archerfish shoot at prey above and beneath the water

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Grey fox

Life

Foxes may confuse predators by rubbing themselves in puma scent

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oxygen bubbles

Earth

Complex life may have had a false start 2.3 billion years ago

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A close-up of a group of ants and larvae

Life

Harvester ants farm by planting seeds to eat once they germinate

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Water snail Reymondia horeii

Life

Fish lure snails to their nest to help camouflage their babies

Regulars

Mouse

Life

Mice turn into killers when brain circuit is triggered by laser

News

A hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata)

Life

Bird-loving vampire bats develop taste for human blood

News

Woman and pet dog

Life

This is why you can't help babbling to your dog like it's a baby

Competing theories for the use of baby talk on dogs are being untangled and it looks like it's got less to do with cute faces than you think, says Clive Wynne

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Life

Wild monkey filmed mounting deer and trying to have sex with it

News

Life

Why mums and babies prefer to keep to one side of each other

News

Life

Oxytocin surge before a fight helps chimps bond with their group

News

Life

There are five times more urban foxes in England than we thought

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