See if you can answer these questions about animals in the science news.

1. A Microraptor was a winged dinosaur about the size of a crow that lived 120 million years ago. What find made it the subject of intense scientist excitement lately?
2. Ancient dogs could crush bones with their teeth. How do scientists know that?
3. Chimpanzees' forest beds are cleaner than beds in humans' houses. Why?
4. What do some skinks (a small lizard) have in common with Mr Spock?
5. According to scientists (ahem), at what age do puppies reach peak cuteness?
6. How did giant dinosaurs sit on their eggs without crushing them?
7. Besides humans, what usually kills male shrews of the Antechinus genus in Australia?
8. What animal-related charity did actor Russell Crowe endow in ironic honour of comedian John Oliver?
9. A newly-discovered shrew has been found on an isolated mountaintop in the Philippines – and only there. What mystery is driving scientists nuts?
10. More scientists getting excited: this time it was physicists. Researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Hanford Observatory in the US state of Washington found weird bursts of gravitational waves on their meters. Was it aliens, or something closer to home?

A little harder than anagrams of top-ten pop tunes? We bet Willem got them all. If you want to know, click the picture for answers.

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Dmitri Gheorgheni

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