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Bumblebees cope with climate change by evolving shorter tongues

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Bumblebees cope with climate change by evolving shorter tongues

Two bumblebee species have got 25 per cent shorter in 40 years, allowing them to feed from shorter flowers as warming makes deeper ones vanish

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Lumber's up

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A queen conch, with a bluish exterior to its shell, and the interior curving out in a rich orangey colour. Two eyes on black and white stalks peep out

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Endangered alien-like conch could be saved by stomach guest

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Gene editing: Bring it on

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Gene editing: Bring it on

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Zoologger: Octopus makes own quicksand to build burrow on seabed

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Zoologger: Octopus makes own quicksand to build burrow on seabed

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Palm oil: How this eco villain is mending its ways

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Why did sex evolve? Blame an ancient hook-up

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Why did sex evolve? Blame an ancient hook-up

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Living fossil nautilus re-emerges after 30 years of hiding

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Living fossil nautilus re-emerges after 30 years of hiding

Almost three decades had passed since the last sighting of Allonautilus scrobiculatus when this creature swam in front of Peter Ward's camera last month

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Secret to old-age health could lie in purging worn-out cells

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Avant-garde fly wearing beads of dew wins photography prize

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Myriad moths reveal odd shapes and hypnotising patterns

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Magical morphing jumbo squid are taking over the eastern Pacific

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