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Rove beetles

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

At least a dozen species of rove beetles have independently evolved almost identical disguises to dupe their army ant prey into accepting them as one of their own

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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

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

Humans

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

Earth

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

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Life

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

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Extinct squid relative

Life

Squid evolved in marine wars more than 100 million years ago

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action during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Group C match between England and Algeria

Health

Try these simple mental tests to see if you're a good athlete

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Extinct Neanderthals still control expression of human genes

Humans

Extinct Neanderthals still control expression of human genes

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Arsenic

Life

Desert people evolve to drink water poisoned with deadly arsenic

People living in the Atacama desert of Chile evolved specific gene mutations over the past 7000 years that make them better at detoxifying the heavy metal

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Life

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

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Earth

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

Culture

Life

Dormouse might be first tree-climbing mammal shown to echolocate

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Life

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

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