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Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out

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Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out

Huge sea spiders move excruciatingly slowly, but they can still catch prey animals that move much faster than them – because their prey sometimes crash into the seafloor

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The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides

Earth

The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides

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Much of nature is near collapse and that means society is too

Earth

Much of nature is near collapse and that means society is too

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broccoli farm

Life

Two herbivores gang up and silence a plant's cries for help

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A deadly predator could save the UK’s threatened red squirrels

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A deadly predator could save the UK’s threatened red squirrels

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People are slaughtering orangutans and wiping them out

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People are slaughtering orangutans and wiping them out

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Shark's open mouth

Life

Shark-free world? That's a wish that would come back to bite us

Comment

Members of the European Parliament, including German co-president of the Greens parliamentary group, Ska Keller (C), take part in a voting session on the 'Conservation of fishery resources and protection of marine ecosystems through technical measures' at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on January 16, 2018

Earth

Commercial electric pulse fishing should be banned for now

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Humans

Planet and people: new books for Anthropocene times

Culture

Plants use sand armour to break teeth of attacking caterpillars

Life

Plants use sand armour to break teeth of attacking caterpillars

Some plants are coated in sand, and it seems the sand grains act like medieval armour that protects these “psammophorous” plants from munching caterpillars

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'Super-spreader' coral could restore trashed Great Barrier Reef

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Earth

If we only ate organic it would be an environmental disaster

Analysis

Humans

Why burying loved ones in unmarked graves could save wildlife

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Life

A third of animals are vanishing as roads spread through forests

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