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human evolution

How a tiny fly can ‘scuba dive’ in a salty and toxic lake

Life

How a tiny fly can ‘scuba dive’ in a salty and toxic lake

Alkali flies plunge into the salty and alkaline Mono Lake, to feed and lay their eggs, but until now it has been unclear how they manage to survive

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Scorpion

Life

Venom: The show with an unsettling sting in its tale

Culture

Dali skull

Humans

Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

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Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

Earth

Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

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Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

Life

Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

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Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day

Life

Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day

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There is a third species of orangutan and somehow nobody noticed

Life

There is a third species of orangutan and somehow nobody noticed

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Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food

Life

Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food

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RNA

Humans

The very first living thing is still alive inside each one of us

Features

Panda

Life

The first ancestors of giant pandas probably lived in Europe

Ten million years ago a bear similar to modern giant pandas lived in what is now Hungary, suggesting the earliest pandas really came from Europe, not China

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Humans

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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Life

Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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Life

Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

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Earth

The mass extinction that might never have happened

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