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Grey fox

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Foxes may confuse predators by rubbing themselves in puma scent

Gray foxes in the mountains of California rub in the scent of pumas, possibly to absorb their smell and confuse predators to give themselves a chance to run

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A harbour seal

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Seals hunt down hidden fish by sensing their breath in the sand

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An adult gorilla holding a young gorilla

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Majority of primate species may vanish in next 25 to 50 years

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brain artwork

Health

Cellular recovery: How self-help could aid the damaged brain

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Breath of life: Did animals evolve without oxygen?

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Pink bacterium with purple background

Life

Electronic gene control could let us plug bacteria into devices

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Scimitar-horned oryx in Chad

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Antelope revived in Sahara years after going extinct in the wild

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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

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Harvester ants farm by planting seeds to eat once they germinate

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seadragon

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First ever video of an elusive new ruby seadragon filmed in wild

The rare and unusual spiny fish, recognised as a new species in 2015, was previously only known from four museum specimens

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Mice turn into killers when brain circuit is triggered by laser

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Largest ever shark was doomed by its taste for dwarf whales

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Life

Make your own meat with open-source cells – no animals necessary

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

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