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Common Crossbill

Life

Male crossbills grow redder feathers when they exercise harder

The red feathers of male crossbills are brighter in birds that find it more physically challenging to fly, suggesting exercise influences plumage colour

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How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life

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How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life

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Bat, elephant, frog, lemur

Life

Genomes of hundreds of extinct species revealed by rewinding evolution

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Ancient mammal skulls

Life

Mammals grew big after dinosaurs died but their brains stayed small

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Bronze age settlement

Humans

Ancient Britons rapidly evolved to cope with lack of sunlight

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An ostrich (Struthio camelus) on a dune against a blue sky, Kalahari desert, South Africa ; Shutterstock ID 2129799884; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Ostrich necks act as a radiator to control their head temperature

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Dryopithecus

Humans

Family tree of extinct apes reveals our early evolutionary history

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Sorry Darwin, but it turns out promiscuity benefits females too

Life

Sorry Darwin, but it turns out promiscuity benefits females too

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E7KTB1 US, New York City. View from the Empire State Building observation deck. Pigeon taking a rest.

Life

Creatures living in our cities are evolving in some surprising ways

Features

The 'Cambrian explosion' saw the emergence of many animals we recognise today

Earth

Burst of animal evolution altered chemical make-up of Earth's mantle

The Cambrian explosion 500 million years ago saw a huge variety of animals evolve – and also led to carbon being buried in the seabed and ultimately carried into the planet’s mantle

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Life

Tyrannosaurus rex may actually be three separate species

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Humans

Largest ever family tree of humanity reveals our species' history

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Life

106-million-year-old virus found ‘fossilised’ in the human genome

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