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Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains

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Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains

A pair of mass extinctions struck in quick succession just before the dinosaur era, and the birth of a mountain range in South Africa may have been partly to blame

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Trees may have a ‘heartbeat’ that is so slow we never noticed it

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Trees may have a ‘heartbeat’ that is so slow we never noticed it

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Plants love carbon dioxide, but too much could be bad for them

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Plants love carbon dioxide, but too much could be bad for them

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Male fruit flies feel pleasure when they ejaculate

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Male fruit flies feel pleasure when they ejaculate

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Flies cool themselves down by constantly blowing bubbles of spit

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Flies cool themselves down by constantly blowing bubbles of spit

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UK failing child refugees because we can’t reliably verify age

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Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’

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Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’

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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

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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

When sexual selection leads to extreme differences between sexes like the peacock's tail, it makes species more likely go extinct

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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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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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