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Dogs really do understand that words stand for objects

Pet dogs have different patterns of brain activity when they are shown an object that doesn’t match the word they hear, suggesting they have a mental representation of what words mean

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Ant queens have good reasons for eating their own babies

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Male and female spiders pair up to look like a flower

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A new species of fluffy longhorn beetle found in Queensland, Australia

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Fluffy beetle discovered in Australia may be the world's hairiest

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Blue tits shared a tree hollow with bird-eating bats – and survived

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Californian orcas used specialised tactics for hunting whale calves

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Chimp mothers play with their youngsters even when times are tough

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Blind cave fish offers lessons in how to survive starvation

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Flightless terror birds stalked Antarctica after the dinosaurs' demise

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Clownfish avoid the sting of their anemone hosts with sugary slime

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Clownfish avoid the sting of their anemone hosts with sugary slime

As a clownfish spends time with an anemone, its mucus coating begins to change. Chemical tweaks to sugars in the slime may calm stinging cells in anemone tentacles

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Worm-like amphibian produces a kind of milk for its hatchlings

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Salmon farms are increasingly being hit by mass die-offs

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Hunger-inducing mutation makes some Labradors more likely to get fat

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Asian elephants seen burying their dead for the first time

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Asian elephants seen burying their dead for the first time

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