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Cave bear skeleton

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Europe’s extinct cave bears went into decline just as humans arrived

The population of cave bears in Europe held steady for tens of thousands of years, then crashed after humans showed up – suggesting we helped wipe them out

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World’s largest frog builds its own ponds using heavy rocks

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World’s largest frog builds its own ponds using heavy rocks

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Chain catsharks glow green in deep water

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Sharks use a special kind of protein to glow green in deep water

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Gorilla

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Meet Kuimba, the French-born gorilla released into Gabon's rainforest

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Snowglow in Finland

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Snowglow can cause the night sky to be twice as bright as a full moon

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a seagull near a man on a bench holding chips

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Staring down seagulls can stop them stealing your chips

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turtle eggs

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Turtle embryos may control their sex by moving inside their eggs

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Wasps may be getting smaller

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Wasps are shrinking in size and it may be because of climate change

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Vaquita

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There may be just 19 endangered vaquita porpoises left in the world

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Meet a 500-million-year old minibeast from the Cambrian explosion

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Meet a 500-million-year old minibeast from the Cambrian explosion

More than half a billion years ago, this predator cruised the seas in what is now Yunnan, China. The remarkable fossil is on display in a new exhibition

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Light pollution's effects on birds may help to spread West Nile virus

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We're pushing 28,000 species closer to extinction

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Chimps bond with each other and people after watching a film together

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Elephants help forests store more carbon by destroying smaller plants

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