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Deep bacteria may evolve even without passing genes on

Genetic changes found in mysterious bacteria living deep under the sea may have let them survive for millions of years without passing genes on to offspring

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Pet theory: Why domestic animals look cute

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Pet theory: Why domestic animals look cute

Opinion

Birds build snow tunnels for fun

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Birds build snow tunnels for fun

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Humans

2015 preview: Meet more of your long-lost cousins

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Peer inside the head of a giant prehistoric groundhog

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Peer inside the head of a giant prehistoric groundhog

Regulars

Humans and birds share the same singing genes

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Humans and birds share the same singing genes

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How to think about… Evolution

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How to think about… Evolution

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Formation of life's building blocks recreated in lab

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Formation of life's building blocks recreated in lab

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'Giant' fossil hints at the diversity of early primates

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Zoologger: Dancing in time makes crabs sexual failures

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Zoologger: Dancing in time makes crabs sexual failures

The synchronised courtship display of the fiddler crab may be doing it more harm than good

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Life

What Pacific islanders have taught me about friendship

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Life

Alien life arrested by climate catch-22

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Life

Shell 'art' made 300,000 years before humans evolved

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Earth

First carnivorous-plant fossil is 40 million years old

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