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A still from the Jungle Book showing Mowgli standing with King Louie in a temple (which the ape fills) with smaller monkeys looking on

Life

Jungle tales: the real King Louie was the biggest ape of all

Disney's remake of The Jungle Book features an ape of fantastic proportions. This King Louie is more rooted in reality than you might think

Features

A grey and white porpoise lying on a pebbly beach

Life

UK's harbour porpoise strandings linked to rising starvation

News

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Life

Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

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Earth

Why cheap green energy could derail the renewable revolution

Analysis

Hatched blastocyst embryo

Health

Embryo protein may warn before miscarriage and pre-eclampsia

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Humans

What is Paleolithic Art?: How to decode the shadows on the wall

Culture

human and dog skeletons

Life

Lovely bones: Fascinating skeletons of the past and present

Culture

Beluga whale

Life

Drowning in sound? The sad case of the baby beluga whales

Features

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Technology

If Google has nothing to hide about NHS data, why so secretive?

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The yellow blooms of a flowering mustard plant

Life

Plants may form memories using mad cow disease proteins

Prion proteins are infamous for their role in mad cow disease, but they also help yeasts form memories. They have now been discovered in plants

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Health

Sleeping away from home? Half your brain is still awake

News

Humans

Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

CultureLab

Life

21-million-year-old fossil is North America's first monkey

News

Life

Dolphins have a language that helps them solve problems together

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