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Boas sense when prey’s heart goes still
Boa constrictors monitor their prey's heartbeat to decide when to relax their lethal grip
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First plant to use buried leaves to catch worms found
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Before DNA, before RNA: Life in the hodge-podge world
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Pigeons match monkeys in abstract counting skills
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2011 review: The year in life science
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Smart Guide to 2012: Humans’ chimeric origins
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Twist in the tail of eukaryotic origins
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Why naked mole rats feel no pain from acid
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Mystery of the male ostrich’s erection solved
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Fish may have started walking underwater
A species of air-breathing fish can walk underwater in the same way land animals do, suggesting walking evolved in the water
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Humans
Earliest human bedding didn’t let the bedbugs bite
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Power of Babel: Why one language isn’t enough
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First top predator was giant shrimp with amazing eyes
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Zoologger: To kill a mockingbird? No, parasitise it
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