Finding a blood-filled mosquito doesn’t mean we can recreate Jurassic Park
Scientists have discovered a preserved mosquito like the one from that dinosaur film for the first time, but alas, dino-cloning…
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ByThe tortoise knows it’s what’s inside that counts
In our Nature column, poet Ruth Padel considers the tortoise – the animal which refuses to be read.
BySea swims in England are all rocks, cliffs and shingle
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ByWinged messengers: The precarious lives of birds
That we can see reverence for birds as old-fashioned or sentimental is merely another indicator of our own outmoded thinking…
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