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How nature is evolving in the human age

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How nature is evolving in the human age

Are we causing mass evolution as well as mass extinction? Chris Thomas presents the case that human actions are boosting biodiversity.

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Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is

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Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is

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earliest animal

Life

Exclusive: 600-million-year old blobs are earliest animals ever found

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zebrafish

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Probability helps zebrafish stay in schools when faced with predators

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We've dug up tiny animals from beneath a frozen Antarctic lake

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We've dug up tiny animals from beneath a frozen Antarctic lake

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jerboa

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Long-eared jerboas have some of the most outsized ears on the planet

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(Coenobita compressus) walking in sand. San Cristobal island, Galapagos.

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Long penises help hermit crabs avoid being robbed during sex

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hagfish

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How hagfish can make enough slime to clog a shark's jaws in seconds

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dolphins jumping

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Dolphins unintentionally poisoning offspring with banned chemicals

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Some bones

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Millions of years ago a massive whale-eating whale roamed the seas

Huge sharp-toothed whales lived in the oceans million of years ago. An analysis of stomach contents suggests the species was top of the food chain

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Crows can guess the weight of an object by watching it sway in wind

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Core set of genes explain why some animals stick to one mate at a time

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Rabbits that don't eat their own faeces are small and weak

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Leafcutter ants have their own landfill sites that emit greenhouse gas

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