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Artistic rendering of Morotopithecus

Life

Early break-up of eastern African forests shaped our ape ancestors

Forests in eastern Africa started turning into grassland 10 million years earlier than previously thought, which may have driven the evolution of upright apes

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Humans

Bone fragment reveals humans wore leather clothes 39,000 years ago

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illustration of an African Savannah Landscape

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Sleeping Beauties review: The strange nature of nature's inventiveness

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A skate embryo

Life

Skates evolved their undulating wings thanks to genome origami

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Seahorses use a spring motion to quickly capture their food

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Seahorses have a super strong gulp thanks to two spring-like tendons

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An African bush elephant in Amboseli National Park, Kenya

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Wild African elephants may have domesticated themselves

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Life

Ants independently evolved to farm fungus at least twice

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A Tyrannosaurus rex eats a juvenile Edmontosaurus

Life

T. rex’s terrifying teeth would have been hidden behind scaly lips

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Life

Our attempts to kill cockroaches forced them to evolve new sex moves

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Life

City life may help Darwin's finches survive bloodsucking flies

In the Galapagos Islands, finches that live near cities have higher survival rates against parasitic flies than those who live in the country

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Life

How daisies make deceptive petals that look like female flies

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Life

How did multicellular life evolve? Algae and yeast give some hints

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Earth

Oxygen on early Earth may have come from quartz crushed by earthquakes

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Life

How poisonous amphibians evolve bright colours to warn predators off

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