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Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

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Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

Many giant mammals in the Americas have died out but it has been hard to say whether humans or natural events were responsible. Now, in the Caribbean at least, we know

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Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

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Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

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Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day

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Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day

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There is a third species of orangutan and somehow nobody noticed

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There is a third species of orangutan and somehow nobody noticed

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Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food

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Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food

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RNA

Humans

The very first living thing is still alive inside each one of us

Features

Panda

Life

The first ancestors of giant pandas probably lived in Europe

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

Humans

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

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Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

There is an urban myth that dogs can smell human emotions, now it seems to be true: dogs can sense a person’s emotional state just by sniffing a sample of their sweat

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Earth

The mass extinction that might never have happened

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Life

Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends

Culture

Life

Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

Culture

Humans

Gene study shows human skin tone has varied for 900,000 years

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