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Pistol shrimp

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

When pistol shrimp snap their one huge claw shut, the resulting shock wave can stun their foes – now we have seen just how this weapon works

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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

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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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A tui singing in a tree

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

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Destinies

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Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends

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Koltsov

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The bourgeois biologist who sparked Russia's genetics revolution

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Beetle

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Museum safari: The myriad unknown species lost in dusty drawers

Millions of animals unknown to science languish in the world's natural history collections. Just open a forgotten cupboard and you could find a new species

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Technology

Too much information? The data-driven future of health

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Life

Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

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Life

Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process

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Life

Perfectly preserved fossil salamander even has last meal in gut

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