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Earth

Is our environmental future better than we thought?

Two possible visions of our future are competing for our attention: an Anthropocene desert of homogenised mongrels and a virtual supercontinent teeming with new species

Culture

Did the first flower look like this?

Life

What the first flower on Earth might have looked like

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Flatworms can still ‘see’ even after they are decapitated

Life

Flatworms can still ‘see’ even after they are decapitated

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Water bear

Life

Tardigrade genomes help explain how they survive without water

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Australian black swan

Life

Mysterious mega-swan once waddled through New Zealand

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A virtual reconstruction of Rangea from CT scans

Life

See inside the 580-million-year-old creature no one understands

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Woman walking againt the skyline with walking poles

Humans

Our brains always plan one step ahead of our bodies when we walk

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Mud eel's wonky body may help it ambush prey

Life

Mud eel's wonky body may help it ambush prey

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First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves

Life

First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves

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Australia

Humans

First Australians may have arrived much earlier than we thought

Stone axes and the remains of fireplaces found in northern Australia appear to date to 65,000 years ago, adding 15,000 years to Australia's human prehistory

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Life

The eyes have it: How spotting naive prey made fish walk on land

Features

Life

At least 75 per cent of our DNA really is useless junk after all

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Life

Ravens can plan for future as well as 4-year-old children can

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Humans

A mouthful of history: How teeth reveal our evolutionary past

Culture