Life
A tall tale: How the sauropod got its neck
At up to 15 metres long, the necks of one group of dinosaurs grew six times as long as those of any other land animal. Now we know how
Features
Humans
First look into workings of the Neanderthal brain
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Environment
Chimps have experimented with sex more than humans
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Humans
The strange ape that’s rewriting our family tree
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Humans
Voice almighty: Decoding speech’s secret signals
Features
Humans
Control sex for humanity’s future
Culture
Environment
Starfish eyes are good enough to show them the way home
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Humans
Flowers have been at funerals for 13,000 years
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Life
Oldest animal genome is sequenced from horse bone
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Humans
Ready, aim, throw! Lobbing rocks key to meat-eating
The ability to throw stones quickly and accurately may have been a crucial step in our evolution, because it allowed us to hunt big game
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Life
Snail shell stripes reveal Irish origins
Regulars
Health
The battle to find a cure for every cancer is evolving
Opinion
Health
Rapid evolution of tumours may be their Achilles’ heel
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Environment
Prehistoric armoured fish had the world’s first abs
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