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World's biggest bird feeder will use 500 tonnes of shellfish

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World's biggest bird feeder will use 500 tonnes of shellfish

A crucial feeding ground for migrating birds has been almost destroyed by pollution and a bad winter, but help is at hand in the form of an all-you-can-eat buffet

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A soldierfish with its lachrymal sabre ready for combat

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These fish hide fluorescent switchblades in their faces

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Species with big sex differences are more likely to die out

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Making babies: How to create human embryos with no egg or sperm

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Wasps drum with their stomachs to tell each other about food

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Wasps drum with their stomachs to tell each other about food

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Palm trees have been spotted changing sex for the first time

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Palm trees have been spotted changing sex for the first time

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Biology's moonshot: The mission to decode the DNA of all life

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Virtuoso bowhead whales constantly make up new songs

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Virtuoso bowhead whales constantly make up new songs

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Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef

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Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef

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GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

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GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

Thanks to a spot of genetic hacking, silkworms can make a new form of silk not found in nature that includes a synthetic amino acid. It could be used in medicine

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The frogs bouncing back after almost being wiped out by disease

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Dog brain scans show if they are looking at a happy or sad face

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How birds focus even with eyes on opposite sides of their heads

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Neanderthals ambushed cave bears as they awoke from hibernation

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