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Foxy moves for successful species

featured Foxy moves for successful species

In the high Arctic, a fox can't be out without his thick white winter coat and tail; Arctic fox image; Credit: © Shutterstock The arctic fox's ancestors originated at, "the...

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Finding sheep 'geneius' in their genome

Finding sheep 'geneius' in their genome

Sorry that they aren't sheep as you know them. These are the rare European mouflon, nearest ancestors of the domestic species, here arranged in a very interesting defensive display of...

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Saving bees with new pesticide

Saving bees with new pesticide

When the honey bee meets the crocus, we have a surprising formulation of spider venom and crocus extract that specifically excludes the pollinator from a pesticide's action; bee image; Credit:...

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Butterfly eyespots have potential

Butterfly eyespots have potential

The butterflies in this study can have lots of eyespots or not. Here is the northern pearly eye with eyes on both the upper and lower wing surfaces; Butterfly image;...

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Common species are most important in ecosystems

Common species are most important in ecosystems

To the NW of West Papua, south of the Philippines are these healthy coral reefs in Raja Ampat. The violet soft coral, Dendronephthya sp. illustrates the differences between many coral...

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Risk it, even if you’re a shy great tit!

Risk it, even if you’re a shy great tit!

A hen great tit feeds her 4 young here, but what would she and her partner give up in order to keep her offspring alive and kicking? - Parus major...

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Nightingale's number one!

Nightingale's number one!

This Greek male is seemingly keen on showing off his position as number in the charts! In northern Europe, the species is becoming rare, and frequents deep cover in copses,...

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Neanderthals and us, the true story

Neanderthals and us, the true story

The European bison has been a staple of past civilisation's diet. The use of their meat and bodies by Neanderthals is now confirmed as the result of clever hunting technique,...

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How sloths breathe upside down

How sloths breathe upside down

Mother and baby spend a week in the trees and avoid danger by coming to ground only once a week. Danger for the sloth species is rife however and the...

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Jellies delicious for this fish

Jellies delicious for this fish

Above Neptune grass, this little yellow-striped brogue forms shoals near European and African coasts and is commercially fished for fresh consumption; brogue shoal image; Credit: © Shutterstock It is time...

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