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How the seahorse gained its shapely body

Earth

How the seahorse gained its shapely body

The seahorse's peculiar body shape is not just for show: it may be an adaptation for hunting prey

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Did pterosaurs fly out of their eggs?

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Did pterosaurs fly out of their eggs?

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Life

Need a new metabolic pathway? Steal a few genes

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Polygamy boosts mouse sperm fitness

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Polygamy boosts mouse sperm fitness

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New dinosaur adds to the mystery of Triassic Park

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New dinosaur adds to the mystery of Triassic Park

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Neanderthals' ugly faces weren't adaptations to cold

Life

Neanderthals' ugly faces weren't adaptations to cold

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Metamorphosis key to creating stable walking robots

Technology

Metamorphosis key to creating stable walking robots

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Hipster bird species evolving to tune out urban sounds

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Hipster bird species evolving to tune out urban sounds

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Ammonites' strict diet doomed them to extinction

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Ammonites' strict diet doomed them to extinction

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Ancient genomes suggest Africa has two elephant species

Life

Ancient genomes suggest Africa has two elephant species

DNA analysis of the extinct woolly mammoth and mastodon and living elephant species suggests Africa has two species of elephant, not one

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Earth

Oxygen crash led to Cambrian mass extinction

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Life

Cluster model shows how first cells could have divided

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Life

Uncertainty principle: How evolution hedges its bets

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Life

New genes needed for survival too

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