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evolution

Great tits avoid bad food after seeing grossed-out friends

Life

Great tits avoid bad food after seeing grossed-out friends

If a great tit eats something nasty, it will disgustedly wipe its beak on a branch – and other great tits watch and learn

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This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era

Life

This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era

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stereotypes

Humans

Effortless thinking: Why stereotyping is an evolutionary trap

Features

cross in ice

Humans

Effortless thinking: The god-shaped hole in your brain

Features

football hooligans

Humans

Effortless thinking: Adapting our need to feel part of the gang

Features

Lizards re-evolved eggs after thousands of years of live births

Life

Lizards re-evolved eggs after thousands of years of live births

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Why do female monkeys spend so long looking at rugged males?

Life

Why do female monkeys spend so long looking at rugged males?

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Hummingbirds have massive hearts to power their hovering flight

Life

Hummingbirds have massive hearts to power their hovering flight

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Baby pterosaurs were cute, defenceless and unable to fly

Life

Baby pterosaurs were cute, defenceless and unable to fly

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Weird tiny galaxies found hiding in Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field

Space

Weird tiny galaxies found hiding in Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field

We just found 72 new galaxies in one of the most studied areas of the sky. We can’t see their stars, but they were revealed by the glow of hydrogen gas

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Humans

Huge dose of brain chemical dopamine may have made us smart

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Life

How a tiny fly can ‘scuba dive’ in a salty and toxic lake

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Life

Venom: The show with an unsettling sting in its tale

Culture

Humans

Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

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