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A park in Bangkok has been overrun by monitor lizards.
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A deer has been filmed bouncing along a beach in Poole Harbour.
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An invasive hornet that kills honey bees is spotted in Britain for the first time, experts confirm.
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Dr Peter Marra explains why pet cats should not be allowed to roam free.
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A parliamentary inquiry recommends video monitoring to tackle abuses in abattoirs, after secretly filmed videos shocked the French public.
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Physicists have set a new bar for quantum teleportation - transferring information from one place to another without anything physically travelling between the locations.
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Archaeologists believe they have found a lost Anglo-Saxon royal palace about four miles (6km) from one of Britain's best known finds.
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Outdoor exercise delivers an estimated £2.2bn of health benefits to adults in England each year, a study suggests.
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China has been building two wind turbines every hour, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has told BBC News.
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Allowing mangrove forests to recover naturally result in more resilient habitats that benefit both wildlife and people, say conservationists.
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A BBC team finds rare Java hawks for sale, as environmentalists say more must be done to tackle Indonesia's illegal bird trade.
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Some of the winning images from this year's competition.
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Arctic ice cover in 2016 reached the second lowest minimum on record, tied with 2007.
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Scientists have recreated the colour patterns of a dinosaur, revealing a camouflage used by animals today.
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A large item of debris found off the coast of Tanzania belongs to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Australian investigators confirm.
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Nearly 500 horseshoe crabs wash up dead on Japan's southern beaches, near Kitakyushu City, mystifying experts.
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China launches a second experimental space station, Tiangong 2, as it looks to have a crewed outpost by around 2022.
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The company set up to manufacture Europe's next-generation rocket - the Ariane 6 - says it is open to orders.
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Conservationists seek public help to protect the famously inquisitive birds.
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Tesla has been criticised by a former business partner for "pushing the envelope" on car safety with its Autopilot technology.
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Diego the tortoise, 100, has fathered around 800 offspring on his native Galapagos Archipelago.
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A crow that survives only in captivity has been found to adapt and use tools to find food, according to scientists.
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A crow that survives only in captivity has been found to adapt and use tools to find food, according to scientists.
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Astronomers have discovered signs of a baby planet developing around another star.
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The European Space Agency has released details of the position and brightness of more than a billion stars.
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The health of the countryside varies depending on how it is measured.
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The opening of data sources in agricultural research is needed to deliver the global goal of delivering zero hunger by 2030, say campaigners.
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Europe's Gaia space telescope releases its first batch of data as it builds the most precise map ever made of the night sky.
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One of Japan's most active volcanoes, Sakurajima, is due for a major eruption within the next 30 years, according to researchers examining new data.
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Insights into the data behind the football industry, both real and simulated, from the brains behind Football Manager.
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More than 50 conservation groups say the "policy-driven" intensification of farming is a significant driver of nature loss in the UK.
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An astrophysics professor and contemporary music producers have teamed up to create a special remix of some of the observatory's historic archive recordings.
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Forester Peter Wohlleben thinks trees talk to each other through their roots and fungal networks.
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The gravitational forces responsible for high tides may also play a role in triggering major earthquakes, a study suggests.
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A project led by adventurer David Hempleman-Adams that aimed to sail the Arctic’s North East and North West passages in a single season has completed its quest.
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Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel admits one of its industrial plants is responsible for turning an Arctic river blood-red.
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An engineer arrives in the UK in his solar-powered tuk-tuk seven months after setting off from India on a 6,200 mile (9,978 km) journey.
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Amazon boss Jeff Bezos says the big, re-usable rocket he has been developing inside his Blue Origin space company will be called New Glenn, after John Glenn.
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An Olympic-style delivery agency could ensure the costs of implementing carbon capture and storage technology are kept to a minimum, says a parliamentary report
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The US government blocks the building of an oil pipeline in North Dakota opposed by Native Americans, shortly after a district judge rules it can go ahead.
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Researchers discover that during sleep the thoughts you care about are more likely to enter your memory.
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Star Trek has had an “inspirational relationship†with the space programme, says Robert Picardo, who played the medical hologram in Star Trek Voyager.
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An investigation into how a SpaceX rocket exploded on the launchpad is uncovering 'the most difficult and complex failure we have ever had in 14 years' says founder Elon Musk.
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Virgin Galactic has flown its new rocket plane for the first time in a “captive-carry test†above California.
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