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Some fish can communicate with other species by changing the colour of their bodies – as this incredible footage shows.

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Proportionately, however, it’s the tuberous bush cricket, whose testes amount to an impressive 14 per cent of its body mass.

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Not all dinosaurs were massive, meat-eating monsters; some were no bigger than labradors, covered in downy feathers, and ...

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