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Zoologger: Polar bears evolved to eat junk food

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Zoologger: Polar bears evolved to eat junk food

The world's largest land predators have evolved genes that let them eat a diet ultra-high in fat that would give most humans a heart attack

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New tyrannosaur was the Dobermann of the dinosaur era

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New tyrannosaur was the Dobermann of the dinosaur era

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Neanderthals may have been our intellectual equals

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Stone Age DNA shows hunter-gatherers shunned farming

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Why did evolution stall during the 'boring billion'?

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Why did evolution stall during the 'boring billion'?

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Spark of life: Metabolism appears in lab without cells

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Spark of life: Metabolism appears in lab without cells

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Stone Age DNA shows hunter-gatherers shunned farming

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Stone Age DNA shows hunter-gatherers shunned farming

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One rule of life: Are we poised on the border of order?

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One rule of life: Are we poised on the border of order?

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Aliens versus predators: The toxic toad invasion

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Aliens versus predators: The toxic toad invasion

The cane toad is spreading fast across Australia, killing anything that eats it. Yet the feared wildlife catastrophe hasn't happened, finds Michael Slezak

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Why we get autism but our Neanderthal cousins didn't

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Zoologger: Gender-bending cave insects found in Brazil

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Killing with kindness: Conservation's cautionary tale

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Human 'missing link' fossils may be jumble of species

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