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Forgotten species: the exotic squirrel with a super tail

They think, therefore they spread: plants can make complex conditional decisions

Super cute, but tiny, elephant-relative discovered in Namibia

Scientists discover carnivorous water rat in Indonesia, good example of convergent evolution

Scientists uncover new marine mammal genus, represented by single endangered species

Giant ibis, little dodo, and the kakapo: meet the 100 weirdest and most endangered birds

Wonderful Creatures: life is a gamble (inside a caterpillar) for the trigonalid wasp

Sloths, moths and algae: a surprising partnership sheds light on a mystery

Scientists discover single gene that enables multiple morphs in a butterfly

Wonderful Creatures: meet the beetle-riding arachnid

Amazon trees super-diverse in chemicals

Wonderful Creatures: the tiny, predatory penis-worm that lies in wait in the sand

The lemur end-game: scientists propose ambitious plan to save the world’s most imperiled mammal family

Wonderful Creatures: the bizarre-looking marine worm with an incredibly important ecological role

Photos: mass turtle hatching produces over 200,000 babies

On edge of extinction, could drones and technology save the Little Dodo?

Scientists make one of the biggest animal discoveries of the century: a new tapir

Odd porcupine hugely imperiled by hunting, deforestation

Like ancient humans, some lemurs slumber in caves

Sky islands: exploring East Africa’s last frontier

Dolphins, bats and the evolution of echolocation

Meeting the mammal that survived the dinosaurs

Featured video: ‘this is day one for the olinguito’

Trinidad and Tobago: a biodiversity hotspot overlooked

Zoo races to save extreme butterfly from extinction

Scientists discover teddy bear-like mammal hiding out in Andean cloud forests (photos)

Meet Thor’s shrew: scientists discover new mammal with a superior spine

Madagascar’s rate of speciation slowing down

Vocal-sac breeding frog possibly extinct

Why bioluminescent fungi glow in the dark

Common moth can hear higher frequencies than any other animal on Earth

New insect discovered in Brazil, only third known in its bizarre family (photos)

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