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Pet theory: Why domestic animals look cute

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Pet theory: Why domestic animals look cute

Darwin wondered why floppy ears, spots and other traits are common in domesticated animals. Cognitive biologist Tecumseh Fitch thinks he has the answer

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Birds build snow tunnels for fun

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Birds build snow tunnels for fun

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Humans

2015 preview: Meet more of your long-lost cousins

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Peer inside the head of a giant prehistoric groundhog

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Peer inside the head of a giant prehistoric groundhog

Regulars

Humans and birds share the same singing genes

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Humans and birds share the same singing genes

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How to think about… Evolution

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How to think about… Evolution

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Formation of life's building blocks recreated in lab

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Formation of life's building blocks recreated in lab

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Life

'Giant' fossil hints at the diversity of early primates

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Zoologger: Dancing in time makes crabs sexual failures

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Zoologger: Dancing in time makes crabs sexual failures

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Life

Alien life arrested by climate catch-22

Other Earth-like planets may be caught in a dilemma – they need stable, warm climates to support complex life, but a lack of life may preclude this

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Life

Shell 'art' made 300,000 years before humans evolved

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Life

What Pacific islanders have taught me about friendship

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Earth

First carnivorous-plant fossil is 40 million years old

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Health

HIV evolves into less deadly form

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