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The team have imaged Prometheoarchaeum syntrophicum using electron microscopes

Life

Deep-sea microbe could answer one of evolution's biggest mysteries

At last, scientists have managed to grow, study and photograph a mysterious deep-sea microbe that could explain the evolutionary origin of our complex cells

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Heracles inexpectatus lived in New Zealand

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World’s largest parrot was a metre tall and lived 19 million years ago

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Chris Stringer

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Don't Miss: African origins, deadly mozzies and meeting of minds

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Artist's impression of two feathered oviraptor dinosaurs

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Birds can thank attractive dinosaurs for their flight feathers

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Meet a 500-million-year old minibeast from the Cambrian explosion

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Meet a 500-million-year old minibeast from the Cambrian explosion

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Fire

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Our ancestors may have begun barbecuing 1.5 million years ago

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James Lovelock standing near the sea at Chesil Beach

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James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life

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Geek coastline

Humans

Our species got to Europe 165,000 years earlier than we thought

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person running

Health

Do you run with bent arms? Turns out it doesn't make much difference

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How did humans evolve from apes?

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How did humans evolve from apes?

Many parents dread the moment when a child asks where they came from. Charles Darwin found the subject awkward too: On the Origin of Species makes almost no mention of human evolution.

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Ancient crocodile cousins evolved vegetarianism at least three times

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Evolution

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Ruth Mace on human evolution and surviving the apocalypse with yaks

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What is a species?