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Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out
Huge sea spiders move excruciatingly slowly, but they can still catch prey animals that move much faster than them – because their prey sometimes crash into the seafloor
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The world’s first snail orchestra makes its crunchy debut
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A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land
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The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides
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Cute but dim quolls have been taught to stop eating toxic toads
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Humans
Horses remember if you smiled or frowned when they last saw you
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Humans
Origin of our species: Why humans were once so much more diverse
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Blossoms: The complex secrets of spring’s simple beauty
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Earth
Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we’re to blame
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Ants build a medieval ‘torture rack’ to catch grasshoppers
A species of tropical ant builds traps on tree trunks that allow them to catch prey almost fifty times their size, by biting their legs and spread-eagling them on the tree surface
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Earth
Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early
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Earth
Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains
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Trees may have a ‘heartbeat’ that is so slow we never noticed it
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Plants love carbon dioxide, but too much could be bad for them
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