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Plants use sand armour to break teeth of attacking caterpillars
Some plants are coated in sand, and it seems the sand grains act like medieval armour that protects these 鈥減sammophorous鈥� plants from munching caterpillars
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Our lust for tastier chocolate has transformed the cocoa tree
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Odd fossils hint first complex life hung on long after its time
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Hardy Antarctic tardigrades may be threatened by climate change
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After crows fight they touch and preen each other to make up
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Ravenous rainforest resident plucks midnight snack from thin air
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The holly hunters banking berries to save a species
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Genital parasite crabs are struggling to find sex partners
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Great tits avoid bad food after seeing grossed-out friends
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This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era
A nearly complete skeleton of an early long-necked plesiosaur has been found in a clay pit in Germany, and reveals they survived a mass extinction
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Ancient microbes caused Earth鈥檚 first ever global warming
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‘Scary’ spider photos on Facebook are revealing new species
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Record-breaking two-tonne fish is the heaviest of its kind
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Japan鈥檚 refusal to stop ivory trade undermines bans elsewhere
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