Environment
Extinct giant goose used its wings to fight rather than fly
Garganornis ballmanni, which lived on a Mediterranean island, was around 1.5 metres tall and had wing adaptations seen in birds that fight over territory
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Ants craft tiny sponges to dip into honey and carry it home
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Cave glow-worms vomit long sticky urine threads to catch prey
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Humans
Oldest early human footprints suggest males had several ‘wives’
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Life
First evidence that wild mammals benefit from bigger brains
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Humans
Guilty or not guilty: Does inequality really lead to murder?
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Environment
Fish rapidly adapt to pollution thousands of times lethal levels
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Longer ‘penis’ drives evolution of bigger brains in female fish
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Humans
Skull casket holding human bones reveals weird burial rituals
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Humans
Are caesareans really making us evolve to have bigger babies?
C-sections mean that babies whose heads are too big or whose mothers’ pelvises are too narrow, are able to survive – a fact that might be changing our species
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Environment
Why baby flatfish grow into the wonkiest animals in the world
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Life
Weeping rock mystery down to microbe builders and barnacle chefs
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Humans
Early hominin Lucy had powerful arms from years of tree-climbing
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Technology
Bacteria taught to bond carbon and silicon for the first time
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