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A ladybird opening its wings

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Ladybird’s transparent shell reveals how it folds its wings

The unusual way ladybird wings fold and unfold could help us design solar array paddles that unfold in space and even pave the way to better umbrellas

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A fixed-wing drone

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Drones listen in on bats to reveal their in-flight secrets

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Keas just want to have fun

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Parrots find ‘laughter’ contagious and high-five in mid air

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A wasp on its nest

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Stubborn wasp queens pass their personality on to their colony

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cock-eyed squid

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Deep-sea squid points a big, bulging eye up and a tiny eye down

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Dolphins playing with hoops

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Synchronised swimming seems to make dolphins more optimistic

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White-faced capuchin monkeys

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Being friendly puts monkeys at risk in times of revolution

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Rock ants

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Ant choosiness reveals they all have different personalities

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New hermit crab has candy-stick legs and a giant spoon-like claw

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Stuffed parrots

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London show confirms the natural world is dead. Good riddance

A Wellcome Collection exhibition demonstrates why the idea of nature as separate to our own world deserves to go into the history books – or at least a museum

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Antelope revived in Sahara years after going extinct in the wild

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Oxytocin surge before a fight helps chimps bond with their group

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Dragon lizards fly by grabbing their fold-up wings with ‘hands’

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Earwigs and rotten panther: The diet of a Victorian eccentric

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