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Meet your maker: Homing in on the ancestor of all life

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Meet your maker: Homing in on the ancestor of all life

What was the last shared ancestor of all life like? How did it make its living? A radical new answer could explain some of the most mysterious features of life

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Ancient life forms fed through fractal arms

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Ancient life forms fed through fractal arms

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Human exodus may have reached China 100,000 years ago

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Human exodus may have reached China 100,000 years ago

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Flip the birds: Migration began in the north not south

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Flip the birds: Migration began in the north not south

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Mega penguin next to human height size comparison

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Extinct mega penguin was tallest and heaviest ever

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Dinosaurs shrank for 50 million years to become birds

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Dinosaurs shrank for 50 million years to become birds

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Killer sperm ravages internal organs of luckless worms

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Killer sperm ravages internal organs of luckless worms

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Bloodsuckers fed on dinosaurs 130 million years ago

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Bloodsuckers fed on dinosaurs 130 million years ago

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Feathersaurus: plant-eating dinos had plumage too

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Feathersaurus: plant-eating dinos had plumage too

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Oxygen oasis for early life found in ancient rock

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Oxygen oasis for early life found in ancient rock

A 2-billion-year-old rock has revealed the first evidence of the isolated pockets where oxygen-breathing life may have evolved

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Beyond the bones: The archaeology of human networks

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Amphibians' swim stroke has lasted 270 million years

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Evolution of placentas upended fish sexual politics

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410-million-year-old arachnid crawls back to life

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