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Rudolph superpowers

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Reindeer's real superpowers could help us beat depression and cancer

So what if Rudolph can’t really fly? He and the herd have some truly amazing evolutionary adaptations that could inspire new treatments for human diseases

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Koalas and apes have evolved similar ways of walking in trees

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Koalas and apes have evolved similar ways of walking in trees

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The starry night harlequin toad had been lost to science since 1991.

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'Rediscovered' toad was known to Colombian locals for decades

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What’s it like to be a rabbit?

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What’s it like to be a rabbit?

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killifish

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Predators may make prey get smart and grow more brain cells

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European brown bear

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Female brown bears hang out near humans to keep cubs safe from males

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red wood ants

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Ants trapped for years in old Soviet nuclear bunker became cannibals

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The felixer trap

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A laser-sighted toxic goo gun is killing feral cats in Australia

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Lascaux II replica of a Lascaux cave painting. These are horse and cow figures in the central gallery. The original Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963. The full-scale Lascaux II replica opened nearby in 1983. The Lascaux cave paintings in south-western France, around 17,000 years old, were painted by Cro-Magnon man, an early European culture of modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens), using red, brown and yellow ochre, and black manganese dioxide. They may have had religious and artistic significance. Photographed in 2010.

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Stone Age artists were obsessed with horses and we don’t know why

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leaf-like rangeomorphs

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The bizarre plant-like animals that say life’s big bang never happened

The Cambrian explosion is feted as the moment where complex animals burst onto the scene, but the enigmatic Ediacaran creatures that came first are rewriting the history of life on Earth

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Female Asian elephants mysteriously stop reproducing later in life

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David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

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Crabs can learn and remember their way through a complex maze

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The best of the 2019 Wildlife Photographer of the Year winning photos

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