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Its stripes are more like a bumblebee's.

Scientists say their discovery shows there are medical secrets still hidden in our oceans.

China begins closing down its legal ivory trade, but will consumer attitudes to prized artwork change?

SpaceX flies and lands a Falcon 9 rocket that had already been used on a previous mission.

Astronauts Peggy Whitson and Shane Kimbrough were meant to be installing debris shields on the ISS.

The spectacular James Webb Space Telescope is bound next for the giant Apollo testing chamber.

Research will be carried out into the age and rarity of the tusk.

The global food trade is depleting water sources quicker than they can naturally be refilled in many places.

California's SpaceX company expects to make a piece of history later when it re-flies a Falcon rocket.

The Australian state of Queensland is assessing the extent of the damage caused by the major storm.

Eleven Asian elephants manage to drag themselves clear of a muddy hole in Cambodia.

Camera traps caught images of the critically endangered Indochinese tigers in eastern Thailand.

Scientists have made a mini working replica of the female reproductive tract to experiment on.

Europe is going to investigate a second site on Mars - called Mawrth Vallis - as a possible destination to send its 2021 rover.

A senior researcher claims ministers are using a flawed method for assessing badger numbers in the TB cull.

The origins of house mice go back about 15,000 years to the Middle East, fossil evidence suggests.

Scientists describe a remarkable collection of dinosaur tracks on beaches in Western Australia.

An Australian university has asked amateur stargazers to help find a possible ninth planet.

After years of protest, the University of Melbourne has removed the name of a controversial figure.

The scale of "fake research" in the UK appears to have been underestimated, a BBC investigation suggests.