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Crocodilians — today's crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials and their many extinct relatives — have been a roaring success since debuting more than 240 million years ago. And new research ...

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The new species of trapdoor spider is discovered by scientists from Durrell working in Mauritius. Some of Britain's rarest and most threatened bats have been recorded in the south-west of England. A ...

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