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Fossils reveal the dinosaur era’s changing insect soundscape
Bush crickets from the Triassic era onwards evolved high-frequency songs to avoid being heard by predators
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Diversity helped mammals survive asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
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Earth
How did so many giant meat-eating dinosaurs co-exist in the Jurassic?
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Ants have evolved to farm plants on at least 15 separate occasions
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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance
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The sounds of animals thought to be silent…until now
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Surprisingly bright blue fish discovered in the darkest ocean depths
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Cat-like sabre-toothed carnivore evolved faster than we thought
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Why itching can be contagious: Reflex pathway is identified in mice
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Health
Fewer boys born in England and Wales in early stage of the pandemic
The covid-19 pandemic has been linked to a decline in the proportion of male babies being born, in line with previous findings that fewer boys are born after population-wide stressful events
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These male hummingbirds evolved to be tiny so they can do cool dives
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Early mammals lived faster and died younger than modern ones
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Fungi evolved their weird and wild shapes in two big bursts
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Mucus has evolved at least 15 times in mammals
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