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World's 10 deadliest diseases humans can get from animals – including the torturous. sleeping sickness, which affects the brain causing insomnia and worse

It has an eerie transparent skull that looks like a diving helmet and is the only animal on Earth to have eyes under its skin inside its head

With its see-through head, the Pacific barreleye fish is one of the weirdest fish in the ocean. Learn all about it in this expert guide from Dave Brian Butvill
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Rare, astounding, deep-sea robot footage shows amazing mother squid carrying something very precious – something she won't let go of for months

Extraordinary footage of a mother squid carrying her eggs
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“No other predator is able to challenge them” – this deadly, intelligent ocean killer works in a team to stun, submerge and launch at its prey

This intelligent marine mammal gets its name from the Roman god of the underworld – a reference to its fierce hunting reputation
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It can scale vertical cliffs, shuffles along on its bottom grazing like a cow, and has flowing blond hair and a blazing red chest: Here's the planet's weirdest monkey

Picture a primate that grazes like a cow, climbs cliffs like a mountain goat and forms groups as big as shoals of fish. Noah Snyder-Mackler introduces Ethiopia’s gelada.
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There’s a remote volcanic island off Brazil home to scientists, the military – and a crab called John

The yellow land crab lives a secret life on an island stronghold off the coast of Brazil. Conservation photographer Fernando Faciole went to find out more about this charismatic crustacean.
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This Californian waterway was a polluted wasteland –then the sea otters arrived

We knew sea otters saved kelp forests. But we didn’t know they could save estuaries, too
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World's 10 most agonisingly painful stings from insects and other creepy crawlies

You might want to give these creatures a wide berth
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“The equivalent of a single decker bus”: Researchers used drones to measure whales' weight during migration – and were stunned

Humpback whales lose 11,000 kilos of blubber during their migration, a new study has revealed
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Birds

It weighs the same as a cat, looks like it's covered with moss and prefers hiking and climbing to flying – meet one of the world's weirdest birds

All you need to know about one of the world's strangest birds
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Tiny golden birds are flooding into Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Here’s why

Warmer temperatures are leading these irrepressible golden-hued birds to expand their range in the USA.
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At 3.6 metres tall, this prehistoric giant is Earth's tallest bird ever. Now 600 years after its extinction scientists are trying to bring it back... Will they succeed?

Biosciences company Colossal plans to create animals resembling the giant flightless birds using DNA technology.
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How to help your garden wildlife in a heatwave: don't let them suffer in silence

As temperatures soar and we revel in the summer sunshine once again, our local wildlife could be struggling to cope! Find out how you can help them through the heatwave.
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This honking ‘satanic turkey’ has a unicorn-like horn, hollow bones and rustles like bubble wrap

The 'air jousting' avian is famed for its loud calls akin to a rubber foot pump with hiccups
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Built for a life above the waves, this legendary long-distance glider has the world's biggest wingspan and can soar for thousands of kilometres without stopping

Spending most of their lives at sea and covering vast distances, little was known about these elusive seabirds until relatively recently. Find out more about albatrosses in this expert guide from the RSPB, including the threats they face, and their outlook for the future.
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How to identify wildlife

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