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Sharpshooter insect

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Tiny insects excrete vast amounts of urine using an anal catapult

Sharpshooters eliminate up to 300 times their body weight in liquid waste each day, and save energy through a phenomenon called superpropulsion

Wind turbine with black and white stripes

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Stripy wind turbines could prevent fatal seabird collisions

Elephant wearing an electric shock collar

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Shock collars could keep elephants out of conflict with humans

A peregrine falcon in flight with St Paul's Cathedral in the background

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Lockdown forced London’s peregrine falcons to eat more parakeets

Two elephants embracing with their trunks through the bars of an enclosure

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Elephants may remember the smell of a relative’s dung for 12 years

Naked mole rat

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Naked mole rats reveal biological secrets of lifelong fertility

Tiktaalik, an early fish that crawled on land

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Spine of early crawling fish was becoming more like a land animal’s

Loggerhead turtle

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Turtles stranded on UK beaches after storms send them off course

crustacean larvae

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Prawn larvae conceal their eyes with reflectors to hide from predators

A beekeeper tends to a honeybee hive

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Rise in urban beekeeping may be crowding out native bee species

In Montreal, Canada, the diversity of wild bee species has fallen in areas where honeybee colonies have proliferated

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Researchers ‘cannot rule out’ bird flu spreading between sea lions

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Avalanches create habitats for a wider range of birds in the Alps

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Bandicoots can be trained to flee predators more quickly

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Sea life recovered from Permian mass extinction faster than we thought