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animals

Bear confronts wolf carrying prey

Life

Why grey wolves kill less prey when brown bears are around

We’ve long assumed wolf packs are forced to kill more often to make up for having meals stolen by scavenging bears – but the opposite is true, they kill less

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Arabian babbler bird

Life

Bird lookouts make alarm calls to save themselves, not the group

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Bacteria in combat

Life

Vicious microbial warfare helps bacteria evolve cooperation

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Bees entering wooden hive

Life

Honeybees welcome friendly migrants to hives but repel raiders

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animal museum

Earth

The video installation that makes us swim in our own mess

Culture

antibiotic farms

Health

Antibiotic resistance spreads from farms to people in China

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Fruit sliced in half to reveal moth

Life

Plant keeps moths captive inside its fruits for almost a year

Regulars

Rock ants

Life

Ant choosiness reveals they all have different personalities

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embryo

Life

Embryonic education: How learning begins long before birth

Features

Stuffed parrots

Life

London show confirms the natural world is dead. Good riddance

A Wellcome Collection exhibition demonstrates why the idea of nature as separate to our own world deserves to go into the history books – or at least a museum

Culture

Life

Spitting archerfish shoot at prey above and beneath the water

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Life

Foxes may confuse predators by rubbing themselves in puma scent

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Earth

Complex life may have had a false start 2.3 billion years ago

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Life

Harvester ants farm by planting seeds to eat once they germinate

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