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How did so many giant meat-eating dinosaurs co-exist in the Jurassic?

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How did so many giant meat-eating dinosaurs co-exist in the Jurassic?

It took a lot of meat to feed even one species of large carnivorous dinosaur, so how did several survive side-by-side in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods without starving? We might finally have the answer

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Ant on a small plant

Life

Ants have evolved to farm plants on at least 15 separate occasions

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

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Juvenile ornate or painted wood turtle (Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima)

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The sounds of animals thought to be silent...until now

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Paraliparis selti

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Surprisingly bright blue fish discovered in the darkest ocean depths

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Pangurban

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Cat-like sabre-toothed carnivore evolved faster than we thought

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Watching someone itch can trigger the same impulse in others

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Why itching can be contagious: Reflex pathway is identified in mice

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Fewer than expected boys were born in England and Wales three months after lockdown was introduced

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Fewer boys born in England and Wales in early stage of the pandemic

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A series of hominoid crania (counterclockwise from the L): juvenile Australopithecus, adult Australopithecus, adult chimpanzee, juvenile chimpanzee, adult Homo erectus (center). Specimens photographed at the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

Humans

Our ancestors’ prenatal growth sped up after we split from chimps

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Geneticist Svante Pääbo has been awarded a Nobel prize for his work on evolutionary genetics

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Nobel prize awarded for study of human evolution using ancient DNA

Geneticist Svante Pääbo has been awarded a Nobel prize for his work on evolutionary genetics

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Life

These male hummingbirds evolved to be tiny so they can do cool dives

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Early mammals lived faster and died younger than modern ones

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Life

Fungi evolved their weird and wild shapes in two big bursts

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Life

Mucus has evolved at least 15 times in mammals

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