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BEN THOMAS GLEESON: Charles Darwin was one of the first to notice something interesting about domesticated animals: different species often developed similar changes when compared to their ancient wild ancestors. But why would a host of seemingly unrelated features repeatedly occur together in different domesticated animals? Scientists call this collection of shared changes “domestication syndrome,” […]
COLIN FERNANDEZ: Plans for the world’s first commercial octopus farm should be scrapped on grounds of cruelty, according to campaigners. Details of the inland farm planned for Las Palmas on Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands are to produce 3,000 tonnes of octopus each year – around one million octopuses… Other countries around the world […]



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