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Starfish eyes are good enough to show them the way home

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Starfish eyes are good enough to show them the way home

If they stray from the reef, starfish can use the light-sensitive organs at the tips of their arms to form images, helping them find their way home

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Cockatoo cracks lock with no prior training

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Cockatoo cracks lock with no prior training

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There may already be aliens on Mars

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Long-haul racers

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Software says Knox's DNA not on crime scene bra clasp

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Eating insects: Disgust is just the first hurdle

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Hummingbird performs the fastest ever shimmy

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Hummingbird performs the fastest ever shimmy

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Plastisphere microbes go to sea on flotsam fragments

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Plastisphere microbes go to sea on flotsam fragments

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Software says Knox's DNA not on crime scene bra clasp

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Software says Knox's DNA not on crime scene bra clasp

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Iridescent beetle shimmers for 49 million years

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Iridescent beetle shimmers for 49 million years

It's rare to see a fossil this vibrant – most have long ago faded to grey. Now researchers are reverse-engineering the process

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Peaceful passenger pigeon waits for resurrection

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My life goal is to cure colour blindness

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Oldest animal genome is sequenced from horse bone

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A sick world in gorgeous close-up

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