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A crow stands on a branch holding a twig in its beak

Environment

Crows are first animals spotted using tools to carry objects

Brainy New Caledonian crows have figured out how to carry objects too large to move with their beaks by using a stick

Environment

Orangutan learns to mimic human conversation for the first time

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Humans

You are junk: Why it鈥檚 not your genes that make you human

Neanderthal and human skulls side by side

Humans

Neanderthal skulls and brains may have developed just like ours

People at sunset

Humans

Mystery ancient human ancestor found in Australasian family tree

Rock chimneys spew what looks like smoke although this is actually on the seabed

Life

Universal ancestor of all life on Earth was only half alive

Life

Eating each other鈥檚 faeces helps earwig young survive famine

An aye-aye stares at the camera from a perching spot in a tree

Life

Boozy primates seek out nectar with the highest alcohol content

Chimps engage with experiment

Environment

Well-travelled chimps more likely to pick up tools and innovate

People at graduation ceremony fling their mortar boards in the air

Humans

Are humans still evolving? Growing evidence suggests we are

Natural selection was long thought over for humans, but new work relating education and reproductive success indicates it is still at work

Environment

Gorillas may have evolved a way to beat a cheating berry plant

Life

T. rex lookalike suggests that tiny arms developed for a purpose

Life

The exotic animals that bankrolled the forgotten evolutionist

Life

Darwin’s discovery: The remarkable history of evolution