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Big cats quiz: Can you get the lion's share of these questions right?
By Sascha Pare published
Quiz How good is your knowledge of big cats? Let's find out if you've got the eye of the tiger in this quiz.

Do pandas eat anything besides bamboo?
By Emma Bryce published
Pandas are descended from carnivores. Why do they eat an (almost) exclusively vegan diet?

Humans heal much more slowly than chimps do. Researchers are still trying to figure out why.
By Jess Thomson published
Researchers have found that wounds heal three times more slowly in humans than in other primates and rodents, suggesting we may have evolved slower healing at some point in our ancestry.

How related are dire wolves and gray wolves? The answer might surprise you.
By Sascha Pare published
Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago and, as far as scientists can tell, never interbred since then.

Chimps filmed sharing alcoholic food for first time
By Patrick Pester published
Videos of chimpanzees sharing alcoholic fruit suggest that this behavior could have led to feasting in humans, a new study finds.

Why do cats bring home dead animals?
By Alice Sun published
Cats sometimes catch and leave a "gift" for their humans. But why do cats give us dead mice, birds or other prey?

Watch bison flee as famous Yellowstone wolf pack descends
By Patrick Pester published
Yellowstone's Junction Butte wolf pack failed in a recent attempt to kill a bison, but the pack appears to be thriving again after the death of its former alpha female, Wolf 907F.

Primates: Facts about the group that includes humans, apes, monkeys and other close relatives
By Jess Thomson published
Discover interesting facts about the origins of primates, what they eat, and if they have thumbs.
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