Life
Exclusive: 600-million-year old blobs are earliest animals ever found
Fossils in China suggest that that some of the first animals in existence may have been carnivorous comb jellies similar to some species that still exist today
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Robot version of our distant ancestor hints at how we learned to walk
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In the beginning: The full story of life on Earth can finally be told
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Core set of genes explain why some animals stick to one mate at a time
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Lost ‘Darwinia’ islands could be origin of species in the Galapagos
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The mummified penguins that hold the secrets of Antarctica’s past
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The mysterious demise of Europe’s massive cave bears
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Bizarre fossil that baffled us for years is early starfish ancestor
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City living makes urban male frogs far more attractive to females
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Environment
Extinct ‘Denisovan’ people may have lived on Earth’s highest plateau
The Tibetan Plateau is a tough environment so we thought humans arrived only about 12,000 years ago, but it seems someone was there 40,000 to 30,000 years ago
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Humans
Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa
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Prehistoric whales used to simply suck their food out of the ocean
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Humans
Judith Mank: Why do we have sex?
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An extinct monkey evolved to live like a sloth in the Caribbean
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