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Lyme disease may spread further by helping ticks survive cold winters
Ticks infected with the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease are more likely to survive winter, contributing to the spread of the disease as the world warms
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Male wasps use spiky genitals to defend themselves from predators
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Canada geese return twice as quickly if you try to shoo them away
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How well do you know your animal poo? Find out with this picture quiz
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Scientists finally found the clitoris on snakes – and there are two
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Fossils reveal the dinosaur era’s changing insect soundscape
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Endangered white rhinos’ cells turned into sperm and egg stem cells
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A surprising number of African animals eat beeswax
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Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches
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Ancient bird with a movable beak rewrites the story of avian evolution
A skull bone from 67 million years ago reveals that ancestors of modern birds had jointed beaks, not immobile ones as biologists have long thought
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Bats and death metal singers use the same throat structure to growl
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A rat without a Y chromosome could be a glimpse of our genetic future
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Ancient predator was one of first vertebrates to grow fast while young
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Newborn female mice live longer if they smell older females’ urine
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