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Mice on opposite North American coasts evolved the same way

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Mice on opposite North American coasts evolved the same way

In North America, mice in both New York and Alberta are larger than their southern cousins and make large nests that insulate against colder northern winters

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artists image of cell differentiation

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Billion-year-old microbe had taken first step towards internal organs

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Grasses pass genes from one species to another but we don’t know how

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Grasses pass genes from one species to another but we don’t know how

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comb jelly

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Animals with weird neurons may rewrite the story of brain evolution

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How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

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How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

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calcite crystals

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People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals

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vampire bat

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Vampire bats might avoid bitter substances to dodge indigestion

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kangaroo hand bones

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Large extinct Australian kangaroo spent half its life in trees

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guanacos

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Llamas and alpacas carry genes from mysterious ‘ghost’ relatives

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Bizarre 'manta shark' slowly cruised the oceans 93 million years ago

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Bizarre 'manta shark' slowly cruised the oceans 93 million years ago

A Mexican fossil belongs to a shark that lived more than 90 million years ago and had wings like a manta ray, which may have helped it swim in place while feeding on plankton

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Altered bioelectric genes give zebrafish wings like flying fish

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Earliest human ancestors may have swung on branches like chimps

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

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Our dexterous thumbs have a 2 million-year-old origin

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