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In The Creatures’ Guide to Caring, science journalist Elizabeth Preston looks to the animal kingdom to explore what it means ...

The American pocket shark, from the Gulf of Mexico, boasts the unusual adaptation of emitting flourescent fluid from pouches.

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Study shows lobsters may feel pain, raising ethical concerns over boiling them alive and prompting calls for more humane ...

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