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Hopping miniature parrots suggest how birds first got airborne

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Hopping miniature parrots suggest how birds first got airborne

Parrotlets save energy when foraging by jumping from perch to perch with a few wingbeats, a technique that might have predated true flight

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evolution artwork

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Resurrected organisms reveal life’s bare essentials

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Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

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Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

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The Dresser formation

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3.5-billion-year-old fossils hint life evolved in pond, not sea

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Humans

Meet ‘Neo’, the most complete skeleton of Homo naledi ever found

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bird of paradise

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We may have the evolution of beauty completely wrong

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Models of the skulls of human ancestors

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Ancient humans: What we know and still don’t know about them

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A sample containing DNA

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Mud DNA means we can detect ancient humans even without fossils

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Illustration of a mastodon

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First Americans may have been Neanderthals 130,000 years ago

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Moth’s disguise is so good, spiders love it instead of eating it

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Moth’s disguise is so good, spiders love it instead of eating it

Moth master of disguise fools its own predator with spider-like wing pattern, jerky movements and posturing behaviour

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Humans

Homo naledi is only 250,000 years old – here’s why that matters

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Mystery human species Homo naledi had tiny but advanced brain

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Humans

Mystery human hobbit ancestor may have been first out of Africa

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The heretical passion of the man who first described Parkinson's

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