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Alligators' bird breath may explain dinosaurs' triumph

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Alligators' bird breath may explain dinosaurs' triumph

The airflow through alligators' lungs is strikingly bird-like, suggesting that super-efficient one-way airflow evolved in an ancestor of dinosaurs

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Coral reefs are most fecund cradles of diversity

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Oldest footprints of a four-legged vertebrate discovered

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Oldest footprints of a four-legged vertebrate discovered

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Respect for elders 'may be universal' in primates

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Respect for elders 'may be universal' in primates

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Chimp's dance suggests a mental grasp of fire

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Chimp's dance suggests a mental grasp of fire

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Ducks fight the battle of the sexes in their genitals

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Ducks fight the battle of the sexes in their genitals

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Richard Wrangham: Cooking is what made us human

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Richard Wrangham: Cooking is what made us human

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2010 preview: Arise, Neanderthal brother

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2010 preview: Arise, Neanderthal brother

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Dogs vs cats: The great pet showdown

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Dogs vs cats: The great pet showdown

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Early birds may have dropped teeth to get airborne

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Early birds may have dropped teeth to get airborne

Fad dieting wasn't an option in the Cretaceous, so the earliest birds went to more extreme measures to address weight issues

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British bird-feeders may be splitting species

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Homosexual selection: The power of same-sex liaisons

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P. Z. Myers: Mild-mannered scourge of creationists

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Charles Darwin: Writing Origin 'like confessing a murder'

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