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It takes 30 seconds for your fingerprint to grip your smartphone

Fingerprints have to soften a bit before they can fully make contact with glass surfaces, which could foil plans for next-generation touchscreens

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Alligator bites shark

Life

Alligators versus sharks: Who wins this ultimate showdown?

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New Zealand’s iconic kiwi birds may be losing their sight

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New Zealand’s iconic kiwi birds may be losing their sight

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Dinosaurs that seemed veggie also ate the odd bit of shellfish

Life

Dinosaurs that seemed veggie also ate the odd bit of shellfish

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The sharksucker’s modified dorsal fin allows it to clamp on to other sea creatures

Life

Robots can hitch-hike on sharks thanks to ultrastrong sucker

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Sacrificial virgin spiders let their nieces eat them alive

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Sacrificial virgin spiders let their nieces eat them alive

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A fish

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There are hardly any old fish left in the ocean – and that’s bad

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Robot made from a DNA strand could deliver cargo in your blood

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Robot made from a DNA strand could deliver cargo in your blood

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Five mythical animals that turned out to be real

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Meet the vampire ant from hell with huge jaws and a metal horn

Life

Meet the vampire ant from hell with huge jaws and a metal horn

Linguamyrmex vladi had ferocious snapping jaws and a horn reinforced with metal, which it may have used to puncture prey and drain their blood

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Bats crash into windows because of a glitch with their 'sonar'

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‘Highwaymen’ beetles rob ants of the food in their stomachs

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Why the ostrich is the only living animal with four kneecaps

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Lizard-bot spins its coiled tail to move easily through sand

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