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A white rodent eating a chocolate snack

Life

Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal

Lock up your cereal. Rats can learn to use tools, such as hooked rakes, to reach food, and they can even choose the right tool for the job

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Is it time to allow more than two parents on birth certificates?

Humans

Is it time to allow more than two parents on birth certificates?

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Snow leopard

Life

Hundreds of endangered wild snow leopards are killed each year

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Underwater view of the seabed bubbling with methane taken by a submersible, with the submersible's arm visible in the bottom right

Life

Hundreds of deep-sea vents found spewing methane off US coast

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Capuchin monkey hits stone with stone

Life

Some of our Stone Age tools may just be crafty monkey throwaways

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Picure of Women on Web

Health

'I had a mail-order abortion': The women forced to go it alone

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Two whales swimming along, one of them has left a plume of faeces behind it

Life

Whales’ dung is the real reason we need to stop hunting them

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Worms seen farming plants to be eaten later for the first time

Life

Worms seen farming plants to be eaten later for the first time

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Spiders can hear you walking and talking from across the room

Life

Spiders can hear you walking and talking from across the room

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Camouflaged frogfish

Earth

Frogfish turns itself white to blend in with bleached corals

The warty frogfish slowly changes colour to match its surroundings – now one has been found that has fully adapted to recent bleaching in the Maldives

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Life

Animal heroes that save other species: Five amazing stories

Features

Life

What do our natural laws really say about the world?

Culture

Life

Snake fools attackers by changing its eyes to look like a viper

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Health

How much water should you drink a day? Your throat will tell you

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