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Bawean warty pig may be world's rarest pig, with only 230 around

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Bawean warty pig may be world's rarest pig, with only 230 around

The pig, from a tiny Indonesian island, seems to be a species in its own right and merits protection, says first study of the animal's ecology in the wild

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Cloud atlas uses satellite data to predict where species live

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Cloud atlas uses satellite data to predict where species live

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Big Ben poppers

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Feedback: Poppers burn a hole in the UK's blanket drugs ban

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Life

Human versus pig: Can we outwit the hog hordes?

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Giving mosquitoes chemical weapons helps keep them under control

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Giving mosquitoes chemical weapons helps keep them under control

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Eyeless cave shrimp senses light and can live frozen in ice

Life

Eyeless cave shrimp senses light and can live frozen in ice

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Artificial cell designed in lab reveals genes essential to life

Life

Artificial cell designed in lab reveals genes essential to life

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Small is beautiful: Why a synthetic minimal genome is a big deal

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Small is beautiful: Why a synthetic minimal genome is a big deal

Opinion

A model of the way a nose works

Life

The evolution of the nose: why is the human hooter so big?

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Prairie dog with a ground squirrel in its mouth

Life

Cute prairie dogs are serial killers savaging ground squirrels

Cuddly looking prairie dogs are herbivores, but that doesn't stop them killing their ground squirrel neighbours to help them prosper

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Life

Glass invertebrates reveal the plight of modern oceans

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Life

Nature’s brain: A radical new view of evolution

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Life

Never-before-seen life spotted by Hawaiian deep-sea expedition

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Life

Frozen rabbit kidneys could solve organ shortage for transplants

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