Environment
First predator fish crushed armoured prey in its jaws
A metre-long hunter fish that lived 423 million years ago was the first fish to be a top predator, suggesting that backboned animals like us come from China
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Life
The father enigma: Why do nature’s devoted dads care?
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Earth
Island-hopping odyssey brought civilisation to Europe
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Environment
Extreme evolution: How snakes became the über-eater
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Life
When trilobites ruled the seas
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Earth
We are killing species at 1000 times the natural rate
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Environment
Emu-style birds have abandoned flight six times
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Humans
Friendship: Friends with many benefits
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Humans
How moral fundamentalism becomes a scientific sin
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Life
Flooded cave hides Naia, a 13,000-year-old American
Cave divers in Mexico have found the skeleton of a teenage girl who was one of the earliest American settlers
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Humans
How to speak Neanderthal: Perhaps we do already
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Humans
Has social living shrunk our brains?
Culture
Earth
Zoologger: Polar bears evolved to eat junk food
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Life
New tyrannosaur was the Dobermann of the dinosaur era
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