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Desert lizard can sip water from sand through its feet and back

Life

Desert lizard can sip water from sand through its feet and back

No water in sight? No worries, if you're a thorny devil: you just cover yourself in soggy sand and water starts flowing to your mouth

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Disgust

Health

A bit of disgust can change how confident you feel

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Plants ‘see’ underground by channelling light to their roots

Life

Plants ‘see’ underground by channelling light to their roots

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Dead vaquita in net

Life

Last-ditch effort to save the world’s smallest porpoise agreed

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Fish swims to the same nest each year just like migrating birds

Life

Fish swims to the same nest each year just like migrating birds

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Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

Life

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

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Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

Life

Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

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Woman sleeping in meadow

Humans

Why rest and relaxation are such a serious business

Culture

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

Life

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

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Assassin bug hunting a spider

Life

Spider-eating bug muffles web vibrations to sneak up on prey

It’s a silent assassin. To eat a spider, the long-necked giraffe assassin bug has to snap web threads without being noticed – and avoid being devoured itself

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Life

Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal

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Humans

Is it time to allow more than two parents on birth certificates?

Comment

Life

Hundreds of endangered wild snow leopards are killed each year

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Life

Hundreds of deep-sea vents found spewing methane off US coast

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