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Animals with antlers comprise the deer family, Cervidae. Learn all about the different members of that family here.

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a behaviour where some individuals forgo their own breeding to help raise the young of others -- a complex phenomenon seen across the animal kingdom, from bees to primates. In long-tailed tits ...

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The world's second-biggest rat species — a gargantuan woolly beast — was caught on camera in the mountains of New Guinea.

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The creature could lay eggs on land, unlike amphibians. It was part of a large group known as “amniotes,” which would evolve ...

Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the ...

In recent years, South African organisations have recovered “lost” animal species, which had not been seen for decades.