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Translucent helmeted cockroach looks like an alien with a halo

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Translucent helmeted cockroach looks like an alien with a halo

A new species of cockroach has been found in a lava cave in Vietnam, and has strange behaviours to match its bizarre appearance

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Neanderthals sat round a campfire with bits of meat hanging up in the foreground

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Neanderthals may have medicated with penicillin and painkillers

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Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

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Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

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Haematite tubes protrude from red background

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Traces in rock may be the oldest evidence of life on Earth ever

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The opposite birds: What wiped out the ancient rulers of the sky

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Extinct squid relative

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Squid evolved in marine wars more than 100 million years ago

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Extinct Neanderthals still control expression of human genes

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Extinct Neanderthals still control expression of human genes

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Desert people evolve to drink water poisoned with deadly arsenic

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Platythyrea and Strumigenys ants

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Big builder ants and tiny guard ants live together in one nest

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How the world made us: chance and climate in the human story

Chance, geo-climatic factors and the changing landscape all have an important part to play in human evolution, argues Mark Maslin in The Cradle of Humanity

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Dormouse might be first tree-climbing mammal shown to echolocate

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Deep-sea squid points a big, bulging eye up and a tiny eye down

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Monkeys and dogs judge humans by how they treat others

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New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride

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