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Ostrich necks act as a radiator to control their head temperature

Infrared images of ostrich necks show that they help the birds keep their heads cool in warm temperatures, lowering their heat stress and helping them reproduce more successfully

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Family tree of extinct apes reveals our early evolutionary history

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Sorry Darwin, but it turns out promiscuity benefits females too

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Sorry Darwin, but it turns out promiscuity benefits females too

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E7KTB1 US, New York City. View from the Empire State Building observation deck. Pigeon taking a rest.

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Creatures living in our cities are evolving in some surprising ways

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The 'Cambrian explosion' saw the emergence of many animals we recognise today

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Burst of animal evolution altered chemical make-up of Earth's mantle

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View of the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), a large natural history museum containing the skeleton of the Tyrannosaur

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Tyrannosaurus rex may actually be three separate species

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Visualizing inferred human ancestral lineages over time and space. Each line represents an ancestor-descendant relationship in our inferred genealogy of modern and ancient genomes. The width of a line corresponds to how many times the relationship is observed, and lines are colored on the basis of the estimated age of the ancestor.

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Largest ever family tree of humanity reveals our species' history

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An artist's impression of prehistoric mammal from the early Cretaceous period

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106-million-year-old virus found ‘fossilised’ in the human genome

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C5E974 Pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus pipistrellus)

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A tiny change to an inner ear bone led bats to evolve into two groups

The two major groups of bats diverged tens of millions of years ago, and the main difference between them lies in a tiny inner ear bone

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How much more contagious could the coronavirus get?

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Some bee colonies have to kill thousands of ‘selfish’ wannabe queens

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Why cat-like creatures vanished from North America for 6 million years

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A West African writing system shows how letters evolve to get simpler

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