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Miracle microbes 7 types of bacteria fuelling our future

Dead bee lying next to a burger © Getty Images

Book extract The Big Mac and the bee

Two-metre salamander is world's biggest amphibian © Ben Taple/ZSL/PA

Giant two-metre salamander thought to be world’s largest amphibian

Seagulls: are they getting more aggressive? © Getty Images

Reality Check Are seagulls getting more aggressive?

Neanderthals weren't the strong, strapping cavepeople we imagine © VixPix/BBC/NHM

Neanderthals weren’t the strong, strapping cavepeople we imagine

Newly discovered eel packs the biggest electrical punch of any known animal © Getty Images

Newly discovered eel packs the biggest electrical punch of any known animal

Want to confuse your opponents in football? Learn from the animal kingdom © Joe Giddens/PA

Want to confuse your opponents in football? Learn from the animal kingdom

Make it snappy! Crocodile fossil identified after 250 year wait © An illustration of the Mystriosaurus (Julia Beier/PA)

Make it snappy! Crocodile fossil identified after 250 year wait

Ancient rhino tooth provides world's oldest sample of genetic data © Mirian Kiladze/Georgian National Museum/PA

Ancient rhino tooth provides world’s oldest sample of genetic data

Squirrels eavesdrop on birds to check for predators © Getty Images

Squirrels eavesdrop on birds to check for predators

Loch Ness Monster: how eDNA helps us discover what lurks beneath © Getty Images

The Loch Ness Monster How eDNA helps us discover what lurks beneath

What is the minimum difference a species must show in order to be classed as a new species? © Getty Images

What is the minimum difference a species must show in order to be classed as a new species?

Barn owls' bright white plumage used for startling prey © Alexandre Roulin/PA

Barn owls’ bright white plumage used for startling prey

What is a goblin shark? © Alamy

What is a goblin shark?

What’s the best way to get wasps to go away? © Getty Images

What’s the best way to get wasps to go away?