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Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food

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Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food

A newly-discovered species of mite sets up home on a spider’s web and nibbles away at any insects the spider catches – and the spider doesn’t seem to mind

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The very first living thing is still alive inside each one of us

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Bird of prey

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People who illegally kill birds of prey are getting away with it

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A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one

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A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one

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Kitchen counter bio-lab lets you make edible gloop from cells

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Kitchen counter bio-lab lets you make edible gloop from cells

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Dark-eyed junco

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Female birds that used to be silent are now singing like males

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Pistol shrimp

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How a tiny shrimp fires a savage shock wave using just its claw

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Mussels

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Mussel-inspired plastic could make self-repairing body armour

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Oysters

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Oysters can ‘hear’ the ocean even though they don’t have ears

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

Two 9.7-million-year-old fossil teeth found in Germany probably belong to a primitive primate and something like a deer, not an early human ancestor as has been reported

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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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Songbird gets angry when its rivals are brilliant at singing

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Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

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Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends

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