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Ape ‘midwives’ spotted helping female bonobos give birth

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Ape ‘midwives’ spotted helping female bonobos give birth

When female bonobos went into labour, other females gathered around to keep them safe, swatting away flies and even seemingly trying to catch the baby as it emerged

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Lizards keep evolving toxic green blood and we don't know why

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Lizards keep evolving toxic green blood and we don't know why

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A new synthetic molecule may solve a paradox about life's origin

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A new synthetic molecule may solve a paradox about life's origin

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Andy Serkis in Neanderthal make-up

Humans

Can CGI finally convince us that Neanderthals were smart?

Culture

Stem cells may reveal how Neanderthal DNA works in modern humans

Humans

Stem cells may reveal how Neanderthal DNA works in modern humans

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Ferocious pack-hunting pseudoscorpions believe in sharing fairly

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Ferocious pack-hunting pseudoscorpions believe in sharing fairly

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Bonobos barely use their opposable thumbs when climbing trees

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Bonobos barely use their opposable thumbs when climbing trees

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People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result

Humans

People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result

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Mistletoe's cells are broken at a fundamental level

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Mistletoe's cells are broken at a fundamental level

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Dino head

Life

Identity crisis: When is a dinosaur not a dinosaur?

As though extinction weren't enough, dinosaurs have also had to deal with doubts over their very existence, and the legitimacy of some of our favourite species

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Humans

Ancient humans in Philippines may have given rise to ‘hobbits’

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Life

Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out

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Health

How some resistant bacteria can even eat antibiotics as food

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Life

A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land

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