Health
Stone-age people were making porridge 32,000 years ago
Evidence of the earliest processing of oats by nomadic hunter-gatherers suggests that Europeans ate cereals thousands of years before farming took off
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Earth
Scary-looking lampreys may be commoner than thought in UK rivers
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Continental break-up set the stage for life in Earth’s mantle
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Earth
Hidden oasis of oxygen suggests life took first breath in lakes
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Earth
Komodo dragons caught in action during lightning-fast attack
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Life
Octopuses seen throwing things may be using shells as weapons
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Earth
Watery time capsule hints at how life got started on early Earth
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Humans
Oldest hand hints we came down from trees earlier than thought
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Humans
Shattered Stone-Age bones expose world’s oldest mass torture
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Humans
See this odd octopus mate beak-to-beak and hunt like no other
The larger Pacific striped octopus is the only one to mate beak-to-beak in a tangle of tentacles and is a polite hunter, tapping its prey on the shoulder
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Life
Mystery of Australia’s five-legged animals cracked
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Environment
Newly discovered dwarf lemurs are totally unafraid of humans
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Life
Bird flies 16,000-kilometre Pacific circuit for no clear reason
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Earth
New species of titi monkey discovered in remote Peruvian forest
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