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The Age of Cats review: How our furry friends evolved, and what’s next

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The Age of Cats review: How our furry friends evolved, and what’s next

Domestic cats are a paradox, argues biologist Jonathan B. Losos in a book that delves into their origins and the emerging science of feline behaviour

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Carnivorous plants use a sneaky trick for luring different bugs to eat

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Carnivorous plants use a sneaky trick for luring different bugs to eat

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Long spined sea urchins underwater on seabed of the Caribbean sea

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Surprising culprit found that killed 95% of a sea urchin population

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Plankton are organisms drifting in oceans and seas. Zooplankton.

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Geoengineering the seas could be catastrophic for marine life

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Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) grows in a thick, underwater forest near the Channel Islands in California. This area is part of a National Park and is teeming with thousands of marine species.

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Kelp forests capture nearly 5 million tonnes of CO2 annually

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Rubbish pulled from the great Pacific garbage patch

Environment

Great Pacific Garbage Patch hosts stable community of coastal animals

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Seahorses use a spring motion to quickly capture their food

Life

Seahorses have a super strong gulp thanks to two spring-like tendons

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Mysterious deep-sea holes may be burrows of tiny shrimp-like creatures

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Mysterious deep-sea holes may be burrows of tiny shrimp-like creatures

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Snakes have been seen doing somersaults when they’re scared

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An African bush elephant in Amboseli National Park, Kenya

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Wild African elephants may have domesticated themselves

African savannah elephants play, care for their young and show social behaviours associated with domestic animals, despite never being domesticated by humans

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Health

The ageing of cells may be due to errors that harm protein production

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Health

Nanosyringes could inject drugs into specific cells in our bodies

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Life

How hagfish slime gets its incredible clogging ability

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Life

City life may help Darwin's finches survive bloodsucking flies

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