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First animals may have lived with almost no oxygen

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First animals may have lived with almost no oxygen

Simple sponges can live with 200 times less oxygen than present atmospheric levels, supporting the idea that animals evolved before oxygen-rich oceans

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The reptile labour that lasted 248 million years

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The reptile labour that lasted 248 million years

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Britain's earliest humanity in epic exhibition

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Britain's earliest humanity in epic exhibition

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A history of the first Americans in 9½ sites

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A history of the first Americans in 9½ sites

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The eyes have it

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Flights of fancy: An enchanting history of ornithology

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Flights of fancy: An enchanting history of ornithology

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Ancestry of first Americans revealed by a boy's genome

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Ancestry of first Americans revealed by a boy's genome

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Coloured feathers readied first birds for take off

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Coloured feathers readied first birds for take off

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Ant squatters help feed the trees they call home

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Ant squatters help feed the trees they call home

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Oldest human footprints outside Africa found in UK

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Oldest human footprints outside Africa found in UK

An ancient hominin male and several children were foraging along an estuary in Norfolk almost a million years ago

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Zoologger: Punk Amazon pheasant is a European emigrant

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Talk is cheep: Do caged birds sing a key to language?

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Humanity's forgotten return to Africa revealed in DNA

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Threatwatch: Mother virus of China's deadly bird flu

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