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Odd bump on praying mantis chest is actually world’s weirdest tongue
A bristly bump on some mantises’ chests is a never-before-seen “gustifolium”, which may have evolved to help the insects with their highly specialised lifestyles
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Foxes’ skulls are specially adapted for diving into snow
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Bowhead whales still harmed from whaling that ended a century ago
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Alpacas are the only mammals known to directly inseminate the uterus
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Culling predatory starfish conserves coral on the Great Barrier Reef
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Exquisite fossils of Cretaceous shark solve mystery of how it hunted
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Nocturnal ants use polarised moonlight to find their way home
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Animals may help ecosystems store 3 times more carbon than we thought
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Fossil snake discovered in India may have been the largest ever
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Ancient marine reptile found on UK beach may be the largest ever
The jawbone of an ichthyosaur uncovered in south-west England has been identified as a new species, and researchers estimate that the whole animal was 20 to 25 metres long
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Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain – here’s how they move
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Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and become cannibals
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Are panda sex lives being sabotaged by the wrong gut microbes?
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‘Peaceful’ male bonobos may actually be more aggressive than chimps
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