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Evolution

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Watch male orb-weaving spiders catapult off females to escape death

For the first time, spiders have been observed escaping sexual cannibalism by flinging themselves away from females, reaching speeds of up to 88.2 centimetres per second

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blind cave tetra

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Blind Mexican cave fish are developing cave-specific accents

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Common Crossbill

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Male crossbills grow redder feathers when they exercise harder

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Bat, elephant, frog, lemur

Life

Genomes of hundreds of extinct species revealed by rewinding evolution

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Ancient mammal skulls

Life

Mammals grew big after dinosaurs died but their brains stayed small

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An ostrich (Struthio camelus) on a dune against a blue sky, Kalahari desert, South Africa ; Shutterstock ID 2129799884; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Ostrich necks act as a radiator to control their head temperature

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E7KTB1 US, New York City. View from the Empire State Building observation deck. Pigeon taking a rest.

Life

Creatures living in our cities are evolving in some surprising ways

Features

Life

Sorry Darwin, but it turns out promiscuity benefits females too

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The 'Cambrian explosion' saw the emergence of many animals we recognise today

Earth

Burst of animal evolution altered chemical make-up of Earth’s mantle

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View of the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), a large natural history museum containing the skeleton of the Tyrannosaur

Life

Tyrannosaurus rex may actually be three separate species

After analysing the teeth and thigh bones of 38 T. rex fossils, some researchers propose reclassifying them as three different species, but others are unconvinced

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Humans

Largest ever family tree of humanity reveals our species’ history

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Life

106-million-year-old virus found 鈥榝ossilised鈥� in the human genome

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A tiny change to an inner ear bone led bats to evolve into two groups

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