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A festival of stunning animal pictures from 2024

The past 12 months have seen animals of all shapes, sizes and colours strut their stuff – here are just a few of the best pictures from the year

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A man makes his way at a hill as African dust from the desert of Sahara covers the city of Athens, Greece, April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC2FC7ATEP85

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Climate chaos accelerated in 2024 as we hit 1.5°C for the first time

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2024 saw the first living people to receive pig kidney transplants

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https://x.com/alfrekjv/status/1789814301613588543 Sinaloa, Mexico, 2024

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Dazzling auroras lit up the skies in 2024 and we may see more in 2025

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MILTON, ON - APRIL 13: Professor Tim Patterson of Carleton University transports a frozen core sample at Crawford Lake on April 13, 2023 in Milton, Ontario. Patterson is a member of the Anthropocene Working Group and has been conducting research based on frozen core samples from the lake. He is among a group of scientists who think we have entered a new geological epoch. (Photo by Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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The Anthropocene was officially spurned in 2024, but the idea lives on

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Noland Arbaugh by John Francis Peters, 2024

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Elon Musk's brain-implant firm Neuralink did its first tests in 2024

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Space was for sale in 2024 as private missions led by Elon Musk boomed

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Woodstock, CT - July 9: A young cow at Fairvue Farms. (Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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Bird flu suddenly got serious in 2024, infecting dozens of people

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Why Kelly and Zach Weinersmith are sceptical about a future on Mars

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The best new science fiction books of 2024

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The best new science fiction books of 2024

Murder in space, a sexbot, a dystopian vision of the future: our science fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her top five reads of 2024

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Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time

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Creation Lake author Rachel Kushner on the 'ultimate writer's task'

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Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids

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