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Nightjars time their epic migration flights using a lunar calendar

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Nightjars time their epic migration flights using a lunar calendar

Nightjars are the first animal found to time migration by the moon, using its phases to know when to take flight on the journey from northern Europe to sub-Saharan Africa

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Want to regrow organs and defy cancer? Just copy these awesome animals

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Want to regrow organs and defy cancer? Just copy these awesome animals

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macaque

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Are experiments on how animals think ever justified?

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Experiments show us how animal minds work – but should we do them?

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Experiments show us how animal minds work – but should we do them?

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the crypt-keeper wasp

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Crypt-keeper wasps can control the minds of 7 other species of wasp

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The amami tip-nosed frog

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Frogs evolved to be more scared after mongooses came to their island

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A giant salamander

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New species of giant salamander is the world's largest amphibian

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The short-faced kangaroo, Simosthenurus occidentalis -- an artistic reconstruction.

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Giant ice age kangaroos had massive cheekbones for crushing bites

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A ghost crabs

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Ghost crabs use teeth in their stomach to growl at their enemies

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Electrophorus voltai (shown above), one of the two newly discovered electric eel species, primarily lives further south than Electrophorus electricus on the Brazilian Shield, another highland region.

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Two new species of electric eel come as a shock to biologists

It was thought that there was only one species of electric eel but a new survey finds there are three, and one has set a new record for its electric discharge

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Goose blood runs cold to carry more oxygen on high altitude flights

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We can tell where a whale has travelled from the themes in its song

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City crows may have high cholesterol because they eat fast food

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Giving koalas faecal transplants could help them adapt to a new diet

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