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What causes the body to age? The Greek Philosopher Aristotle thought it was the heart--a "hot, dry" organ at the seat of intelligence, motion and sensation. Fast-forward a few centuries, and the brain has overthrown the ...

Red-eared slider reproduction involves large claws, extra-long penises and numbers of eggs.

A virus that causes its host, an ill-fated caterpillar, to climb to the top of a tree before being rendered into a pile of goop may have been spotted doing its slimy work in England last month.