Environment
These fish are evolving right now to become land-dwellers
The threat of predation makes the blenny fish seek refuge outside of water, where they are safer, perhaps retracing steps of first land-dwelling animals
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Environment
Plants have evolved a taste for sand that deters hungry insects
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Earth
Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously
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Environment
Sneaky beetles evolved disguise to look like ants, then eat them
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Environment
Translucent helmeted cockroach looks like an alien with a halo
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Environment
Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains
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Earth
Traces in rock may be the oldest evidence of life on Earth ever
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Environment
The opposite birds: What wiped out the ancient rulers of the sky
Features
Environment
Squid evolved in marine wars more than 100 million years ago
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Humans
Extinct Neanderthals still control expression of human genes
Early humans may have outcompeted Neanderthals, but their influence lives on in DNA some of us inherited after the two interbred
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Health
Desert people evolve to drink water poisoned with deadly arsenic
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Environment
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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