Could you be dumber than a chimp? That's not as daft a question as it once was. After all, science has proved that chimpanzees share 99 per cent of our DNA.

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Boris looks terrifying but friendly - one of those sort of 'is really happy and nice most of the time but if you spill his pint he will eat you' types. But of course he wouldn't do that, because he's a friendly creation-dinosaur and was a vegetarian and lived with humans frolicking in the Garden of Eden and just chillin generally. Until Eve ate the apple, introduced sin into the world, and made animals start eacting each other.

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Meals specially prepared for religious inmates are usually better quality than standard fare, said Walter Taylor, a 32-year-old inmate in Monroe. He is a devout Muslim, but said he had to claim other faiths with the prison system in order to meet requirements in the Quran for the practice of Islam.

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Scientists studying the human tendency to follow the gaze of other people have found a link to the behaviour of lemurs, a distant primate relative.

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The regulation of methods of slaughter of animals for food is predicated on a public policy of minimising the suffering of animals - slaughtering should be humane and cause the least suffering and pain possible.

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Sir Paul McCartney reveals this week in Prospect, the political magazine, that he once wrote to the Dalai Lama to criticise him for eating meat after the religious leader stated: “As Buddhists we believe in not causing any suffering to any sentient beings.”

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Charles Darwin is a truly remarkable scientist. His research into, and writings on, evolution deserve to be honoured in some way. Making his birthday (12th February) would be a simple way of doing this.

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A rare juvenile skull of a 190 million-year-old dinosaur may help explain when an important group of plant eaters branched off from carnivorous cousins, U.S. and British researchers said on Thursday.

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It's real, it's happening: you can sponsor the first atheist advert on a bus – and Richard Dawkins will match your money.

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The gun-totin', pro-hunting Republican has offered his services for Macca's forthcoming Israel gig. Then he'll buy him a 'nice dinner of tofu' (just in case this story wasn't weird enough).

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