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How wild primates adapt to living with disabilities

For primates, being born with a missing limb or experiencing a major injury isn’t necessarily disabling if their environment or social connections help them thrive – just like humans

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Captorhinus aguti

Life

Oldest known skin fossil is from 300-million-year-old reptile

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mountain-yellow frogs being translocated

Life

California frog reintroduction is rare victory against fungal pandemic

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A bearded seal on the ice in Svalbard

Life

Arctic seals have weird bones in their noses that help them stay warm

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Humans

The 2023 discoveries that made us rethink the story of human evolution

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Common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) crawling at Buffalo Zoo, USA. Captivity.

Life

Why are there no flightless bats? We're closing in on an answer

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Health

Why some medical conditions are due to evolutionary design flaws

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Humans

Did Homo naledi bury its dead? Debate rages over human relative

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The caudate nuclei, parts of the brain affected by Huntington's disease

Health

Mutation behind Huntington's linked to higher childhood intelligence

Analysis

Not to be used in museums, exhibitions, or articles about Elisabeth Daynes or the Atelier Daynes. No use in any context outside of mainstream science without the express permission of Atelier Daynes. Front covers or private use require clearance. Mandatory credit. Paranthropus boisei model. Reconstruction of a specimen of Paranthropus boisei. This hominin, which is sometimes classified as Australopithecus boisei, lived from 2.3 to 1.2 million years ago in eastern Africa. P. boisei is one of several extinct species that form an early part of the human evolutionary tree. Reconstruction by Elisabeth Daynes of the Daynes Studio, Paris, France. MANDATORY CREDIT.

Humans

How did Paranthropus, the last of the ape-people, survive for so long?

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that lived on in a world dominated by big-brained early humans. Recent archaeological discoveries, like stone tools, are revealing how they lived

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Life

Anemones are first known animals to follow the sun like plants do

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Life

Starfish don't have a body - they're just a big squished head

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Life

Flatworms can either regrow lost heads or reproduce sexually, not both

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Eve review: Why women's bodies belong at the heart of human evolution

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