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Being friendly is in dogs' nature and could be key to how they were domesticated from wolves.
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A UK zoo is taking part in a radical plan to save the world's last northern white rhinos from extinction.
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Dogs were tamed from a single wolf population between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago, a study suggests.
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The European Space Agency turns off one of its most successful ever missions - LISA Pathfinder.
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The birds were collected under licence for translocation to a part of Spain where they have not bred for years.
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New research suggests the dinosaur could go no faster than a very brisk walking pace.
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Legislators vote to extend a programme that charges firms for releasing pollutants to the year 2030.
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We're all used to ants sprouting wings and taking to the air during summer, but is there really such a thing as a "flying ant day"?
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New radio telescopes far more powerful than any used before aim to shed light on extra terrestrial activity.
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Satellite images show the colossal Larsen iceberg continuing to edge away from the White Continent.
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New research reveals why bigger is not always better in the animal world when it comes to speed.
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World Land Speed record holder Andy Green looks forward to the first, low-speed runs of the Bloodhound supersonic car.
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The wildcat could be reintroduced into the UK for the first time in 1,300 years.
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A mariner says there is a "raft" of plastic debris spanning 965,000 square miles in part of the South Pacific.
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Scientists have dated the trees to a previous ice age 60,000 years ago, when sea levels were far lower.
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A "raft" of plastic debris spanning more than 965,000 square miles is floating in the South Pacific.
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Acclaimed Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani dies of breast cancer aged 40.
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Six of the world's large carnivores have lost more than 90% of their historic range, new analysis says.
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Chinese scientists have "teleported" a photon particle to a satellite - could humans be next?
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Broadcaster Sir David Attenborough says species have suffered "significant declines" recently.
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How reducing the methane from cows is helping to fight climate change
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The UK should focus on making fuel from chip fat, whiskey dregs and forest waste and not from crops like wheat
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A gannet bonanza is confirmed on the towering cliffs of Yorkshire by research from the RSPB.
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Polish logging in one of Europe's last remaining primeval forests is to go to the EU's top court.
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At least 200 campaigners in 24 countries were killed in 2016, according to a new report from Global Witness.
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A Nasa probe returns the most detailed pictures ever of one of the Solar System's biggest storms.
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Home Office annual figures show that animal experiments in the UK fell by 5% in 2016.
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Which creature is taking the place of Dippy the dinosaur?
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Move over Dippy - Earth's biggest animal is now the star attraction at the Natural History Museum.
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Images and a short film are inserted into bacteria DNA and recovered with 90% accuracy.
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It is six months since an independent review backed a planned £1.3bn tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay.
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The government is about to set out its position on membership of Europe's nuclear regulator after Brexit.
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A block of ice a quarter the size of Wales calves from the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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New rules are urgently needed to protect the open seas, scientists warn.
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The invasive lionfish poses a number of threats in the Atlantic Ocean – can it be stopped by a robot?
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Our ancestors could be to blame for the wide variety of human sleeping habits, from larks to night owls.
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The UK government formally announces a more-than-£100m investment in new satellite and rocket test facilities.
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China teleports first object from the ground to satellite
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We will have to wait until the second half of the century for fusion reactors to start generating electricity, experts have announced.
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A whale appears to play with a pod of dolphins off the coast of Western Australia.
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The World Health Organization sees developing a vaccine as vital in stopping "super-gonorrhoea".
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Galaxy Zoo is one of the most successful citizen science projects ever conceived. We look back at what it's achieved over 10 years.
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Newly-discovered fossil suggests birds evolved very rapidly after the dinosaurs went extinct.
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The remains of tiny marine organisms document the wind-driven, warm-water melting in West Antarctica.
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A statement at the G20 summit says the Paris accord is "irreversible" but the US forces compromise.
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The VP made a tongue-in-cheek apology to Nasa after a photo of him touching the equipment went viral.
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Lucy Hawking describes her famous scientist father being asked - what happens if you fall into a black hole?
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Germany is battling to stop the US undermining a united front on climate change at the G20 summit.
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A mission to Mercury is getting closer to the launch pad.
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