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animals

Someone wearing a fox head mask in protest at the idea of bringing back fox hunting

Life

UK foxes thankfully spared the baying pack, unlike Theresa May

One good outcome of the hung parliament chaos will be a Queen's speech devoid of an utterly unscientific vow to resume fox-hunting, says Stephen Harris

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wildebeest

Earth

'Devil weeds' threaten wildebeest migrations in Serengeti

News

Migrating wildebeest

Life

‘Devil weeds’ threaten wildebeest migrations in Serengeti

News

Brain switch in voles makes them fall in love at first sight

Life

Brain switch in voles makes them fall in love at first sight

News

Macaque with stolen goods

Life

Monkey mafia steal your stuff, then sell it back for a cracker

News

Quit nature to save wolves and bears? There are better ways

Life

Quit nature to save wolves and bears? There are better ways

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A pair of cowpea seed beetles mating

Life

Traumatic beetle sex causes rapid evolutionary arms race

News

Narwhal

Earth

Narwhals could help us measure melting glaciers underwater

News

Unique skeleton

Life

Frog skeleton allows them to jump horizontally or vertically

News

A stream running through a grassland with a beaver dam across it

Earth

Beaver dams keeps streams cool and protect sensitive fish

We used to think that beaver dams warmed up stream waters as felling trees to build them reduces shade. Now it seems the opposite might be true

News

Life

Vultures smear their faces in red mud which they use as makeup

News

Life

Eggs four times bigger than ostriches’ reveal a giant dinosaur

News

Life

Lazarus species: Five cool animals we wrongly believed extinct

Features

Life

Menopause-causing bait is curbing rat populations in New York

News

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