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Sabre-toothed tigers in ice-age Los Angeles had bad back trouble
Back injuries identified from thousands of fossilised bones probably occurred when the cat wrestled large prey such as bison and camels
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Earth
Mass bleaching hits Great Barrier Reef for second year in a row
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Life
Giant viruses may just be small viruses that stole hosts’ genes
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Environment
How smaller snakes strangle bigger snakes and swallow them whole
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Environment
Squishy robotic manta ray flaps its wings to spy in the ocean
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Environment
World’s largest canary discovered on island of giants and dwarfs
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Life
First ever cavefish discovered in Europe evolved super-fast
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Environment
Badger filmed burying a whole cow by itself in Utah mountains
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Health
Is most cancer just random bad luck? No, lifestyle matters a lot
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Life
First dinosaurs may have been omnivores in the north hemisphere
Largest shake-up of dinosaur family tree in 130 years puts T. rex in a group with herbivores and uproots what we thought we knew about the reptiles
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Health
Recoded organism paves way to new genetic language of life
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Environment
Tardigrades turn into glass to survive complete dehydration
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Environment
How did the zebra get its stripes?
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Environment
Plants have evolved a taste for sand that deters hungry insects
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