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There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened

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There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to reframe the current biodiversity crisis

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Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during last ice age peak

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Sloths repeatedly evolved large and small body sizes

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Giant ground sloths evolved three different times for the same reason

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The first teeth were sensory organs on the skin of ancient fish

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What the complete ape genome is revealing about the earliest humans

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Swallow (Hirundo rustica) in flight chasing a Tsetse fly (Glossina sp.), Kenya, Africa.

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Welcome to a great, straightforward guide to the tree of life

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Humans evolved to survive mild burns at the expense of severe ones

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Oldest ant fossil ever found shows how ants took over the world

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The evolution of easier births means slower walking and pelvis issues

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USA, Alaska, Katmai National Park, Young female Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos) rests on river bank beneath coastal mountains along Kinak Bay on autumn morning. Photograph by Paul Souders.

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What the surprising lives of solitary animals reveal about us

A new understanding of why some animals evolved to be loners, and the benefits that brings, shows that a social lifestyle isn’t necessarily superior

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Cannibal spiders have strange trick to stop their siblings eating them

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Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Paranthropus cousin

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The anus may have evolved from a hole originally used to release sperm

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Ancient wasp may have used its rear end to trap flies

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