Environment
Large cache of giant lemur bones found in flooded cave
Giant lemurs, horned crocodiles, pygmy hippos and gigantic birds discovered in a watery cave grave may have been swept there by floods
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Environment
Tongues may have evolved from a mouthful of water
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Environment
Conifer seed fossils caught learning helicopter flight
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Life
Chance: The importance of randomness in evolution
Features
Life
Chameleons don’t change colour, they use smart mirrors
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Humans
The skull that chews up theories of human ancestry
Regulars
Environment
Zoologger: Moustache helps hipster spider catch prey
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Humans
Oldest known member of human family found in Ethiopia
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Life
Evolution’s big bang: How life on Earth took off
Features
Did sponge microbiomes help aerate the oceans?
Symbiotic bacteria living inside sponges hoard precious phosphorus, a step that may have been key to animal proliferation over 500 million years ago
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Life
A New History of Life shows we’re not extinction-proof
Culture
Life
Jurassic fossils reveal varied life of early mammals
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Earth
We’ve got the evolution of complex cells inside-out
Opinion
Life
Genome reveals three more species of Darwin’s finches
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