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'Missing' disaster led to all-time worst extinction

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'Missing' disaster led to all-time worst extinction

There were thought to be five mass extinctions in Earth history. Fossil evidence is now pointing to a sixth – and it's not the human-made Anthropocene

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Transformers: 10 revolutions that made us human

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Transformers: 10 revolutions that made us human

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Thoroughly modern humans interbred with Neanderthals

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Thoroughly modern humans interbred with Neanderthals

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Transformers: Humanity's next 1000 years

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Transformers: Humanity's next 1000 years

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Extinct giant kangaroos didn't hop, they walked

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Extinct giant kangaroos didn't hop, they walked

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Australia's toad vanguard hops straight to invade fast

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Australia's toad vanguard hops straight to invade fast

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Violins evolved by Stradivarian design

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Violins evolved by Stradivarian design

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Lung cancer's long hibernation may be its weak spot

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Lung cancer's long hibernation may be its weak spot

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Cave art discovery is rewriting human prehistory

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Found: closest link to Eve, our universal ancestor

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Found: closest link to Eve, our universal ancestor

A man who died in 315 BC in southern Africa is the closest relative yet known to humanity's common female ancestor – mitochondrial Eve

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Life

A life spent chasing down how whales evolved

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Zoologger: No escape from hunting harvestman's sticky grasp

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Cerebellum's growth spurt turned monkeys into humans

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