Life
Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day
The extinction of the dinosaurs allowed our distant mammalian ancestors to start foraging during the day for the first time 鈥� and shaped our early evolution
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Environment
There is a third species of orangutan and somehow nobody noticed
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Earth
Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food
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Humans
The very first living thing is still alive inside each one of us
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Life
The first ancestors of giant pandas probably lived in Europe
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Humans
What the controversial 鈥榟uman鈥� teeth fossils really tell us
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Environment
Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction
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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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Humans
Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends
Jonathan Losos's book Improbable Destinies tackles a controversy in biology - and finds that humans aren't all that different from the platypus
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Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals
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Humans
Gene study shows human skin tone has varied for 900,000 years
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Environment
Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process
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Earth
Cold climate may have driven ancient humans鈥� move out of Africa
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