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A still from the Jungle Book showing Mowgli standing with King Louie in a temple (which the ape fills) with smaller monkeys looking on

Life

Jungle tales: the real King Louie was the biggest ape of all

Disney's remake of The Jungle Book features an ape of fantastic proportions. This King Louie is more rooted in reality than you might think

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Gigantopithicus AW

Life

Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

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Two overlapping giraffes facing in opposite directions

Life

Giraffes got their long necks thanks to a few dozen gene changes

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Reef fish get it on with other species at melting pot islands

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Reef fish get it on with other species at melting pot islands

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Diver surfaces as colleague standing above him holds large mastodon bone

Humans

First Americans hunted big game in Florida 14,500 years ago

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A red knot, which is brown, on the shoreline, with a white clam in its bill

Earth

Earlier ice melt in the Arctic cuts survival of birds in Africa

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Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

Life

Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

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skeleton in graveyard

Life

A history of love, art, power and religion in 10 graves

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human and dog skeletons

Life

Lovely bones: Fascinating skeletons of the past and present

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Three skulls, black background

Humans

Game of bones: first Europeans' shifting fortunes found in DNA

Prehistoric Europe was a dynamic place where human populations would rise to dominance, get swept aside by others and then rise again years later, and a new genetic analysis shows what happened

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Humans

Thou shalt not tell us how to behave any more

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Humans

Why are religions so judgemental? Ask evolution

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Life

Lizard gets to grips with city life by evolving stickier feet

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Environment

Smallest perching bird’s long-lost family revealed by genetics

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