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Ant carrying back injured nestmate

Life

Soldier ants carry comrades wounded in raids back to base

One kind of buccaneering ant carries its wounded nestmates home – so they can live to fight another day

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Life could exist up to 10 kilometres beneath the sea floor

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Life could exist up to 10 kilometres beneath the sea floor

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Giant viruses may just be small viruses that stole hosts’ genes

Life

Giant viruses may just be small viruses that stole hosts’ genes

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São Tomé grosbeak

Life

World's largest canary discovered on island of giants and dwarfs

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The new cavefish

Life

First ever cavefish discovered in Europe evolved super-fast

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Person cutting notches into bone with close-up of notched Neanderthal version on the left

Humans

Neanderthal artist revealed in a finely carved raven bone

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Mouse

Life

Mice lived with us 15,000 years ago even before farming took off

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Chimp holds banana in its mouth

Life

Putting bigger brains down to our social nature is half-baked

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Dinosaur skeletons

Life

First dinosaurs may have been omnivores in the north hemisphere

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guppies

Life

Female fish with bigger brains choose better mates

Colourful male guppies are healthier and better foragers. But using this information to pick a good mate requires female guppies to use more brainpower

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Life

These fish are evolving right now to become land-dwellers

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Life

Plants have evolved a taste for sand that deters hungry insects

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Earth

Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously

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Life

Sneaky beetles evolved disguise to look like ants, then eat them

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