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Some liked it hot: Dinosaurs evolved range of body temperatures

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Some liked it hot: Dinosaurs evolved range of body temperatures

A new way to infer body temperature from eggshells suggests that small dinosaurs were cooler than large ones, and both were warmer than modern reptiles

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Bacterial genes that turn mercury lethal mapped across world

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Bacterial genes that turn mercury lethal mapped across world

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Genome of ancient Ethiopian tells of back-to-Africa migration

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Genome of ancient Ethiopian tells of back-to-Africa migration

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Elephants almost never get cancer thanks to multiple gene copies

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Elephants almost never get cancer thanks to multiple gene copies

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Ape fossils put the origin of humanity at 10 million years ago

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Ape fossils put the origin of humanity at 10 million years ago

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Slow cyclists gain advantage from schooling like fish

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Slow cyclists gain advantage from schooling like fish

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Our knack for remembering faces is a highly evolved skill

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Our knack for remembering faces is a highly evolved skill

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Ears of early humans could hear frequencies used in speech

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Ears of early humans could hear frequencies used in speech

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Bumblebees cope with climate change by evolving shorter tongues

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Bumblebees cope with climate change by evolving shorter tongues

Two bumblebee species have got 25 per cent shorter in 40 years, allowing them to feed from shorter flowers as warming makes deeper ones vanish

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America's oldest decapitated head reveals strange burial ritual

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Divers return to famous Antikythera wreck to hunt for treasures

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Morality 2.0: How manipulating our minds could save the world

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Huge relative of first fish to crawl on land has a lung

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