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Sword and dagger arachnid fights may explain weapon evolution

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Sword and dagger arachnid fights may explain weapon evolution

Three weapons have been found in one harvestman species. Gladiator-like cage fights could help explain why animals have evolved different types of weaponry

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Whales make mysterious visits to underwater mountains

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Whales make mysterious visits to underwater mountains

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Two whales killed by sole fish stuck in their blowholes

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Two whales killed by sole fish stuck in their blowholes

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Capuchin monkeys use sticks as shovels to dig out caiman eggs

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Capuchin monkeys use sticks as shovels to dig out caiman eggs

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African finch sings and performs superfast Happy Feet tap dance

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African finch sings and performs superfast Happy Feet tap dance

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Kids' sense of fairness depends on country they were born in

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Kids' sense of fairness depends on country they were born in

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Ruff bird orgies have four 'sexes' thanks to a supergene flip

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Ruff bird orgies have four 'sexes' thanks to a supergene flip

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Why insects are the real rulers of the world

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Why insects are the real rulers of the world

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Most of Earth's mass extinctions caused by… mineral deficiencies

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Most of Earth's mass extinctions caused by… mineral deficiencies

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Did climate change jump-start human evolution in East Africa?

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Did climate change jump-start human evolution in East Africa?

The Turkana basin, home to many major fossil discoveries, may have acted as a species factory, generating early humans adapted to a drier climate

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Rice was domesticated three times across Asia, not once in China

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Vitamin supplements could save critically endangered kakapo

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Fossil discovery could be the last common ancestor to all apes

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Frodo's basement: Secret chamber found where hobbit humans lived

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