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human evolution

Illustratoin of Ignacius dawsonae, a squirrel-like animal in a tree

Life

Early relatives of primates lived in the Arctic 52 million years ago

Analysis of fossilised teeth from Ellesmere Island, Canada, reveals that extinct relatives of monkeys and apes reached the Arctic during a period when the climate was hotter

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Humans

Why it is important to explore the outer limits of knowledge

Leader

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Life

Male and female gibbons sing duets in time with each other

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Finley, one of the sloths at The Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica. Credit: Ignacio Moya

Life

Sloths have double the grip strength of humans and other primates

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Anole lizard on a pole

Life

Urban lizards have gene mutations that help them adapt to city life

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Cross section of the skull (top) and outer layer of the brain, showing the subarachnoid lymphatic-like membrane in green

Health

We've just discovered a new part of the brain's waste disposal system

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Ichthyosaur

Life

Largest ever animal may have been Triassic ichthyosaur super-predator

Features

2FM22K7 The joy is evident on the face of this young orangutan. BORNEO: THIS BRITISH photographer has spent TWENTY years snapping Borneo?s cutest orangutans.

Life

Living in trees may have given great apes vocal skills for consonants

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A male katydid fossil from the Early Cretaceous period

Life

Fossils reveal the dinosaur era's changing insect soundscape

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Dinosaur apocalypse

Life

Diversity helped mammals survive asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

The conventional view of the age of the dinosaurs is that mammals lived in the shadows until the day the asteroid hit, but a new analysis shows they were already evolutionarily primed to take over the world

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Earth

How did so many giant meat-eating dinosaurs co-exist in the Jurassic?

Features

Life

Ants have evolved to farm plants on at least 15 separate occasions

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Humans

The Song of the Cell review: A love letter to life's most basic unit

Culture

Life

How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

Features

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