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Cup fungus (Dasyscyphella nivea) covered in water droplets, beside Zygote fungi (Zygomycota), close up. Hertfordshire, England, UK. November. Focus stacked image.

Life

Fungi evolved their weird and wild shapes in two big bursts

The vast array of shapes that fungi can take, including colourful mushroom caps and tangles of thread-like moulds, evolved in two big bursts hundreds of millions of years ago

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A large, black Newfoundland dog with drool dripping from its half open mouth

Life

Mucus has evolved at least 15 times in mammals

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3D models of the femur and ulnae of Sahelanthropus tchadensis

Humans

Human ancestors may have walked on two legs 7 million years ago

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Saccorhytus coronarius

Life

Sac with a mouth and no anus wasn't our earliest ancestor after all

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Unlike in other primates, the human voice box has lost small tissue structures called vocal membranes, which may have been involved in the evolution of speech

Humans

Losing parts of our voice box may have helped humans evolve to speak

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Digital restoration of fossil child and adult crania

Humans

Shape of human brain has barely changed in past 160,000 years

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A pobblebonk frog (Limnodynastes terraereginae) in south-east Queensland, Australia

Life

Pobblebonk frogs have a weird trick for surviving very acidic pools

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DEWD0X Archaeological Site of Atapuerca. Archaeological Site: Gran Dolina. World Heritage Site. Burgos. Castilla-Leon. Spain.

Humans

Life As Told By a Sapiens to a Neanderthal review: Joyful curiosity

Culture

Illustration of a Neolithic farming village

Humans

Evolution of lactose tolerance probably driven by famine and disease

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Illustration of Tyrannosaurus rex in the jungle

Life

Controversial idea that T. rex was three species comes under fire

A study that proposed Tyrannosaurus rex is three separate dinosaur species has been strongly disputed by another group of researchers, who say there was just one iconic tyrant lizard king

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Life

Ear anatomy shows warm-blooded animals evolved 233 million years ago

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Life

A fish that evolved to stand up on land went back to living in water

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Life

Antarctic bacteria reveal an evolutionary limit to dealing with heat

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Life

Meraxes gigas was a huge dinosaur with tiny arms like T. rex

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