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Capuchin monkeys use sticks as shovels to dig out caiman eggs
The first-ever record of this tool-wielding behaviour shows the monkeys risking it all for an egg treat hidden deep inside the predator's nest
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African finch sings and performs superfast Happy Feet tap dance
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Humans
Kids’ sense of fairness depends on country they were born in
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Ruff bird orgies have four ‘sexes’ thanks to a supergene flip
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Why insects are the real rulers of the world
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Earth
Most of Earth’s mass extinctions caused by… mineral deficiencies
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Did climate change jump-start human evolution in East Africa?
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Rice was domesticated three times across Asia, not once in China
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Vitamin supplements could save critically endangered kakapo
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Fossil discovery could be the last common ancestor to all apes
A peculiar Spanish fossil from 11.6 million years ago suggests that the ancestor of all apes might have been more like gibbons and less like great apes
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Frodo’s basement: Secret chamber found where hobbit humans lived
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Humans
The real first farmers: How agriculture was a global invention
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Earth
Bees found farming fungus for first time to feed larvae
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Howler monkeys have to choose between big balls and big bawls
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