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How killer bees evolved into chiller bees in just one decade

While killer bees terrorised the US, in Puerto Rico, an extraordinary accident of evolution has transformed them into a beacon of hope against the threat of insectogeddon

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How walking helped humans take over the planet

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How walking helped humans take over the planet

Culture

The team have imaged Prometheoarchaeum syntrophicum using electron microscopes

Life

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

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Heracles inexpectatus lived in New Zealand

Life

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

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Chris Stringer

Life

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

Culture

Artist's impression of two feathered oviraptor dinosaurs

Life

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

Humans

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

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

The first modern humans were not supposed to have reached Europe until 45,000 years ago, but a skull from a Greek cave turns out to be 210,000 years old

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Health

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

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Question

How did humans evolve from apes?

Life

Ancient crocodile cousins evolved vegetarianism at least three times

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Evolution