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Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day

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Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day

The extinction of the dinosaurs allowed our distant mammalian ancestors to start foraging during the day for the first time – and shaped our early evolution

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There is a third species of orangutan and somehow nobody noticed

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There is a third species of orangutan and somehow nobody noticed

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Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food

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Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food

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RNA

Humans

The very first living thing is still alive inside each one of us

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Panda

Life

The first ancestors of giant pandas probably lived in Europe

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

Humans

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

Life

Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

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Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

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The mass extinction that might never have happened

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The mass extinction that might never have happened

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Destinies

Life

Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends

Jonathan Losos's book Improbable Destinies tackles a controversy in biology - and finds that humans aren't all that different from the platypus

Culture

Life

Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

Culture

Humans

Gene study shows human skin tone has varied for 900,000 years

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Life

Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process

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Earth

Cold climate may have driven ancient humans’ move out of Africa

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