Environment
Tongues may have evolved from a mouthful of water
Slow-motion X-ray footage of mudskippers using a "water tongue" to capture food on land offers a clue to the way tongues evolved
News
Environment
Conifer seed fossils caught learning helicopter flight
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Life
Chance: The importance of randomness in evolution
Features
Life
Chameleons don’t change colour, they use smart mirrors
News
Humans
The skull that chews up theories of human ancestry
Regulars
Environment
Zoologger: Moustache helps hipster spider catch prey
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Humans
Oldest known member of human family found in Ethiopia
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Life
Evolution’s big bang: How life on Earth took off
Features
Did sponge microbiomes help aerate the oceans?
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Life
A New History of Life shows we’re not extinction-proof
Hubristic humans should heed the boom-and-bust vision of Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink's book, a grand synthesis of all that is known about evolution
Culture
Life
Jurassic fossils reveal varied life of early mammals
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Earth
We’ve got the evolution of complex cells inside-out
Opinion
Life
Genome reveals three more species of Darwin’s finches
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Life
Zoologger: Insect females hell-bent on wiping out males
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