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Dolphins may use their teeth to hear underwater

The teeth of dolphins and other toothed whales are connected to a uniquely thick bundle of nerve fibres, which might play a role in sound detection

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Whales may hone their singing skills by practising out of season

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A farmer checking the quality of sugar cane plants

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Genetic tweak to three key crops massively boosts their growth

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The bizarre story of a rodent utopia that predicted doom for humanity

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The bizarre story of a rodent utopia that predicted doom for humanity

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The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate

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The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate

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New forms of animals made by fusing several comb jellies together

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Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why

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Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

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Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

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Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

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Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

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Heart cockle shells

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Heart-shaped mollusc has windows that work like fibre optics

Tiny, solid windows in the shells of heart cockles let in light for the photosynthetic algae inside them – and they could show us how to make better fibre-optic cables

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World’s largest coral is 300 years old and was discovered by accident

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Cancer atlas reveals how tumours evolve inside the body

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Richard Dawkins's latest crams gorgeous writing in an ill-fitting box

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Two injured comb jellies can merge to form one individual

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