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BEAK Performance
■ WHY DO BIRDS HAVE BEAKS? Believe it or not, beaks evolved to help birds fly. Alongside other adaptations for getting airborne — including wings (modified forelimbs), flight feathers, huge pectoral muscles and a specialised respiratory system — bird
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FOSSIL HUNTING in South Africa
Imagine”, says Paula, as she carefully digs around a piece of bone that juts out of the earth, “just imagine if I find that one fossil that is the missing piece in a great big human ancestor puzzle?” Paula is from Ireland and is a long way from home
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Drawn To The Wild
An elephant is a hexagon. An impala a rectangle. A hippo? An oval-square-rectangle combo. A giraffe? Well, that's pretty much a rhombus with a long triangle perched on the top corner. How many circles make a zebra? (Three.) And, lions are the last an

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