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Bat, elephant, frog, lemur

Life

Genomes of hundreds of extinct species revealed by rewinding evolution

Thanks to the growing collection of genomes for species alive today, researchers have been able to partially reconstruct the genomes of extinct ancestors for which no physical record exists on Earth

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Ancient mammal skulls

Life

Mammals grew big after dinosaurs died but their brains stayed small

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Bronze age settlement

Humans

Ancient Britons rapidly evolved to cope with lack of sunlight

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An ostrich (Struthio camelus) on a dune against a blue sky, Kalahari desert, South Africa ; Shutterstock ID 2129799884; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Life

Ostrich necks act as a radiator to control their head temperature

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Dryopithecus

Humans

Family tree of extinct apes reveals our early evolutionary history

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Sorry Darwin, but it turns out promiscuity benefits females too

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Sorry Darwin, but it turns out promiscuity benefits females too

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E7KTB1 US, New York City. View from the Empire State Building observation deck. Pigeon taking a rest.

Life

Creatures living in our cities are evolving in some surprising ways

Features

The 'Cambrian explosion' saw the emergence of many animals we recognise today

Earth

Burst of animal evolution altered chemical make-up of Earth's mantle

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View of the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), a large natural history museum containing the skeleton of the Tyrannosaur

Life

Tyrannosaurus rex may actually be three separate species

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Visualizing inferred human ancestral lineages over time and space. Each line represents an ancestor-descendant relationship in our inferred genealogy of modern and ancient genomes. The width of a line corresponds to how many times the relationship is observed, and lines are colored on the basis of the estimated age of the ancestor.

Humans

Largest ever family tree of humanity reveals our species' history

A genealogy of humans constructed from thousands of genomes gives us clues about where our species first evolved and how we spread across the world

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Life

106-million-year-old virus found ‘fossilised’ in the human genome

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A tiny change to an inner ear bone led bats to evolve into two groups

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