Tangled web of spider evolution
Further study of the 385m-year-old Attercopus spider has shown that it could not have spun webs as modern spiders do.
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A bee a day keeps the hungry caterpillars away
Bees help plants in more ways than one, scientists find; as well pollination, they help scare caterpillars away.
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Navigating through a maze using only a ’sixth’ sense
Scientists discover that a blind person can navigate through a maze of obstacles unaided using the power of sense alone.
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Malaysia ‘to double tiger stock’
Malaysia launches a plan to double the country's wild tiger population from 500 to 1,000 by 2020, activists say.
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Mosquito blood ‘identifies thief’
Police in Finland use human blood from a mosquito caught inside a stolen car to identify a suspect in the theft.
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