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2M3EH4G A recreation of various fighting dinosaurs. Detail of a diorama at the Gorodskoy Muzey, Museum, in Temirtau, Kazakhstan.

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Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought

A wave of dinosaur discoveries over the past decade has completely reshaped our understanding of these long-extinct animals. Palaeontologist Dave Hone spills the secrets of how dinosaurs lived, from how social they were to how much they really fought聽

A sketch of the giant octopus

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Largest-ever octopus was great white shark of invertebrate predators

Fossil skeleton of Tyrannosaurus Rex

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The shocking fossils that show T. rex wasn’t the king of the dinosaurs

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Watch a cuttlefish transform into a leaf and a coral to hunt its prey

The skull of a Smilodon, which were made up of saber-toothed cats

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Why sabre-toothed animals evolved again and again

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Earliest known sabre-toothed predator hunted 270 million years ago

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Spiders use fireflies as flashing lures to catch more prey

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Sea slugs discovered working together to hunt in packs

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A bacterium switches from prey to predator when it gets cold

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Spotted salamander eggs hatch more easily if nibbled by predators

Removing some of the thick jelly layers surrounding spotted salamander eggs may help the embryos inside access more oxygen in the water

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Cougars are changing the way they hunt so bears don鈥檛 steal their food

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Wolves are scaring smaller predators into deadly conflict with humans

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Trilobite fossil shows it was attacked by a human-sized sea scorpion

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Bizarre fossil with an incredibly long neck was a marine hunter