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Our human ancestors often ate each other, and for surprising reasons

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Our human ancestors often ate each other, and for surprising reasons

Fossil evidence shows that humans have been practising cannibalism for a million years. Now, archaeologists are discovering that some of the time they did it to honour their dead

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Great apes like teasing each other - which may be the origin of humour

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Extinct elk species had antlers that were too big to make sense

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Weird anglerfish mating strategy may have helped them evolve

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Dinosaurs evolved feathers to scare prey, suggests robot experiment

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Why do we have taste buds in our heart and testicles?

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Oldest known skin fossil is from 300-million-year-old reptile

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mountain-yellow frogs being translocated

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California frog reintroduction is rare victory against fungal pandemic

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A bearded seal on the ice in Svalbard

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Arctic seals have weird bones in their noses that help them stay warm

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The 2023 discoveries that made us rethink the story of human evolution

In 2023, archaeologists found evidence of architecture and art beginning earlier than we thought, and uncovered data that rewrites our ideas of how much power women had in ancient societies

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Why are there no flightless bats? We're closing in on an answer

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Why some medical conditions are due to evolutionary design flaws

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Did Homo naledi bury its dead? Debate rages over human relative

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How did Paranthropus, the last of the ape-people, survive for so long?

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