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Giant isopod named after Darth Vader is a delicacy in Vietnam

A marine crustacean that looks like Darth Vader’s helmet has been recognised as a new species, but it could be under threat from trawling due to its popularity in Vietnamese restaurants

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Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes fosteri) colony with chicks, age 9-12 weeks, Antarctica. Bookplate.

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We thought we knew emperor penguins – robots are proving us wrong

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Dolphins may use their teeth to hear underwater

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Whales may hone their singing skills by practising out of season

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A farmer checking the quality of sugar cane plants

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Genetic tweak to three key crops massively boosts their growth

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The bizarre story of a rodent utopia that predicted doom for humanity

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The bizarre story of a rodent utopia that predicted doom for humanity

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The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate

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The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate

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New forms of animals made by fusing several comb jellies together

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Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why

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Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

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Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

Arthropods belong to an evolutionary branch – the ecdysozoa – that contains about half of all animal species, and the earliest fossil evidence of the group now dates back 550 million years

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Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

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Heart-shaped mollusc has windows that work like fibre optics

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World’s largest coral is 300 years old and was discovered by accident

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Cancer atlas reveals how tumours evolve inside the body

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