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evolution

Moth’s disguise is so good, spiders love it instead of eating it

Life

Moth’s disguise is so good, spiders love it instead of eating it

Moth master of disguise fools its own predator with spider-like wing pattern, jerky movements and posturing behaviour

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Some of the best early human bones ever found

Humans

Homo naledi is only 250,000 years old – here’s why that matters

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A replica of the skull of Homo naledi

Life

Mystery human species Homo naledi had tiny but advanced brain

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Mystery human hobbit ancestor may have been first out of Africa

Humans

Mystery human hobbit ancestor may have been first out of Africa

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fossils

Life

The heretical passion of the man who first described Parkinson's

Features

Ant carrying back injured nestmate

Life

Soldier ants carry comrades wounded in raids back to base

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Life could exist up to 10 kilometres beneath the sea floor

Earth

Life could exist up to 10 kilometres beneath the sea floor

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Giant viruses may just be small viruses that stole hosts’ genes

Life

Giant viruses may just be small viruses that stole hosts’ genes

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São Tomé grosbeak

Life

World's largest canary discovered on island of giants and dwarfs

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The new cavefish

Life

First ever cavefish discovered in Europe evolved super-fast

A remote underground cave system in Germany has yielded a ghost-like cavefish that evolved as recently as 16,000 years ago

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Humans

Neanderthal artist revealed in a finely carved raven bone

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Life

Mice lived with us 15,000 years ago even before farming took off

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Life

Putting bigger brains down to our social nature is half-baked

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Life

First dinosaurs may have been omnivores in the north hemisphere

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