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Extreme evolution: How snakes became the über-eater

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Extreme evolution: How snakes became the über-eater

Losing legs was just the start of snakes' bizarre journey – to switch from barely being alive to eating an antelope takes re-engineering at the molecular level

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When trilobites ruled the seas

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When trilobites ruled the seas

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Learn a second language to slow ageing brain's decline

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Learn a second language to slow ageing brain's decline

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We are killing species at 1000 times the natural rate

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We are killing species at 1000 times the natural rate

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Emu-style birds have abandoned flight six times

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Emu-style birds have abandoned flight six times

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Friendship: Friends with many benefits

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Friendship: Friends with many benefits

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How moral fundamentalism becomes a scientific sin

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How moral fundamentalism becomes a scientific sin

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Flooded cave hides Naia, a 13,000-year-old American

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Flooded cave hides Naia, a 13,000-year-old American

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Has social living shrunk our brains?

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Has social living shrunk our brains?

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How to speak Neanderthal: Perhaps we do already

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How to speak Neanderthal: Perhaps we do already

We know our ancestors cosied up to our Neanderthal cousins, but did their liaisons leave an imprint on today's languages?

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Zoologger: Polar bears evolved to eat junk food

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New tyrannosaur was the Dobermann of the dinosaur era

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Neanderthals may have been our intellectual equals

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Stone Age DNA shows hunter-gatherers shunned farming

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