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Life

Crows may owe their intelligence to an abundance of certain neurons

Corvids such as rooks and crows seem to have a unusually high number of interneurons, brain cells involved in processing information

Life

Rare albino turtle discovered in India

Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) in flight, Mexico

Life

Vampire bats adapted to drinking blood by shedding several genes

woman with pigeons

Environment

Wild Wild Life newsletter: The world’s most controversial animals

Type specimen of Hanyusuchus sinensis from the Bronze Age of China (above), and life restoration (below: drawn by Hikaru Amemiya).

Life

A 6-metre-long crocodile relative lived in China during the Bronze Age

The parthenogenetic mouse and the offspring. The parthenogenetic mouse was generated by targeted epigenetic rewriting of multiple imprinting control regions. The parthenogenetic mouse exhibited normal reproductive performance as an adult.

Life

Mouse pups born from unfertilised eggs through genetic manipulation

The 'Cambrian explosion' saw the emergence of many animals we recognise today

Earth

Burst of animal evolution altered chemical make-up of Earth’s mantle

Three giant oak trees in natural forest among juvenile hornbeam, Bialowieza Forest, Poland, Europe

Life

Virus outbreak in wild boars led to more oak trees in Polish forest

View of the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), a large natural history museum containing the skeleton of the Tyrannosaur

Life

Tyrannosaurus rex may actually be three separate species

This photo shows an adult female elephant seal returning from her 7-month foraging migration to breed on the beach at A?o Nuevo Reserve.

Life

Elephant seals seem to have precise mental maps for navigating home

Northern elephant seals seem to know how far they have travelled and when they need to head back towards the beaches where they breed

Life

Mosquitoes learn to avoid pesticides after just one non-lethal dose

Life

Some humpback whales travel 6000 kilometres in search of a mate

Life

1 in 3 birds tested at an Australian animal hospital have chlamydia

Life

Whiteflies have acquired dozens of genes from plants they eat