Life
This crocodile emerging from the gloom sure seems happy to see you
Smiling American crocodile shows off its teeth – but although specimens can grow 6 metres long, the species rarely launches unprovoked attacks on people
Regulars
Life
Honeybees gang up to roast invading hornets alive — at a terrible cost
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Life
We now know why horses snort – because they’re happy
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Environment
Prolific ‘M25 serial killer’ beheading cats is an old feline foe
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Environment
The koala genome has been fully sequenced for the first time
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Life
Freak accident created a massive army of super-fertile clones
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Life
Crows make the right tool by remembering the last one they saw
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Life
Female velvet ants are so scary no other animal dares eat them
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Environment
Why is the UK running out of CO2 and what will it mean?
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Environment
Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty
The skeleton of an entirely new - but now extinct - species of gibbon was found in the tomb of Lady Xia, grandmother of China’s first emperor, and was probably her pet
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Environment
Moths fly 1000 kilometres with Earth’s magnetic field as a guide
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Environment
Rainforest romanticism is derailing our hunt for new drugs
Culture
Environment
The New York bird with a song that may be a thousand years old
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Environment
Some scorpions can hiss by rubbing themselves with ‘sandpaper’
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