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Anole lizard on a pole

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Urban lizards have gene mutations that help them adapt to city life

Anole lizards living in three cities in Puerto Rico have mutations in genes linked to immune function, limb and skin development, which may help them thrive alongside humans

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Ichthyosaur

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Largest ever animal may have been Triassic ichthyosaur super-predator

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2FM22K7 The joy is evident on the face of this young orangutan. BORNEO: THIS BRITISH photographer has spent TWENTY years snapping Borneo?s cutest orangutans.

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Living in trees may have given great apes vocal skills for consonants

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A male katydid fossil from the Early Cretaceous period

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Fossils reveal the dinosaur era's changing insect soundscape

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Dinosaur apocalypse

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Diversity helped mammals survive asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

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How did so many giant meat-eating dinosaurs co-exist in the Jurassic?

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How did so many giant meat-eating dinosaurs co-exist in the Jurassic?

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Ant on a small plant

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Ants have evolved to farm plants on at least 15 separate occasions

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

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Juvenile ornate or painted wood turtle (Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima)

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The sounds of animals thought to be silent...until now

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Paraliparis selti

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Surprisingly bright blue fish discovered in the darkest ocean depths

Most snailfish living in the deepest ocean realm known as the hadal zone are ghostly white with tiny eyes. But a newly described species has large eyes and is intensely blue

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Cat-like sabre-toothed carnivore evolved faster than we thought

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Mind

Why itching can be contagious: Reflex pathway is identified in mice

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Health

Fewer boys born in England and Wales in early stage of the pandemic

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Humans

Our ancestors’ prenatal growth sped up after we split from chimps

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