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evolution

A skate embryo

Life

Skates evolved their undulating wings thanks to genome origami

The front fins of skates emerge from their heads as huge wings and now we know how they can develop in this way

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Seahorses use a spring motion to quickly capture their food

Life

Seahorses have a super strong gulp thanks to two spring-like tendons

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An African bush elephant in Amboseli National Park, Kenya

Life

Wild African elephants may have domesticated themselves

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Life

Ants independently evolved to farm fungus at least twice

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A Tyrannosaurus rex eats a juvenile Edmontosaurus

Life

T. rex’s terrifying teeth would have been hidden behind scaly lips

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Life

Our attempts to kill cockroaches forced them to evolve new sex moves

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Life

City life may help Darwin's finches survive bloodsucking flies

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Beetle daisy (Gorteria diffusa), Springbok, Namaqualand, South Africa - Image ID: C119J6 (RF)

Life

How daisies make deceptive petals that look like female flies

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The slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum is used to study the origins of multicellularity

Life

How did multicellular life evolve? Algae and yeast give some hints

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Earth

Oxygen on early Earth may have come from quartz crushed by earthquakes

Billions of years ago, crushed quartz reacting with water could have created the conditions needed for the evolution of the photosynthetic microbes responsible for most of the oxygen now in Earth’s atmosphere

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Life

How poisonous amphibians evolve bright colours to warn predators off

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Humans

The archaeologists recreating the secrets of prehistoric technology

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Life

Stone flakes made by monkeys cast doubt on ancient human 'tools'

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Life

Fossil thought to be earliest bryozoan animal may actually be seaweed

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