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Elephants sleep for just 2 hours a day – the least of any mammal

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Elephants sleep for just 2 hours a day – the least of any mammal

The sleep patterns of wild elephants have been remotely monitored for the first time, revealing they get by with little kip

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Extinct squid relative

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Squid evolved in marine wars more than 100 million years ago

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Fingernails on a blackboard

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The feeling you get when nails scratch a blackboard has a name

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Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are

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Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are

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Altruism

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Does a networked world need a new approach to doing good?

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great auk

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Resurrecting nature: Extinct is not forever

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octopus

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The 1830s seamstress who solved Aristotle’s octopus mystery

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A turtle's eye

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Mystery eye disease is latest blow for Australia’s sick turtles

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Platythyrea and Strumigenys ants

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Big builder ants and tiny guard ants live together in one nest

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Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material

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Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material

The first evidence of organic material on Ceres opens the door to the possibility that other asteroids harbour precursors to primitive life

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Can we grow woolly mammoths in the lab? George Church hopes so

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Metabolic switch may bring on chronic fatigue syndrome

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Deep-sea squid points a big, bulging eye up and a tiny eye down

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400 pilot whales stranded on New Zealand’s ‘whale trap’ beach

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