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The archaeologists recreating the secrets of prehistoric technology

It has long been unclear how ancient people built a city of wood in the New Mexico desert far from any forests. By trying prehistoric building techniques themselves, archaeologists are working it out

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Life

Stone flakes made by monkeys cast doubt on ancient human 'tools'

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Caption: New fossils of Protomelission from the Xiaoshiba biota, showing attachment of the alga to a brachiopod shell. Credit: Zhang Xiguang

Life

Fossil thought to be earliest bryozoan animal may actually be seaweed

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The giant lacewing found in Arkansas

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Giant insect thought extinct in eastern US found in a Walmart

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Siberian Sturgeon

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Influenza viruses may have originated in fish 600 million years ago

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H7WWT1 Magellanic Penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) pair calling from burrow entrance, Volunteer Point, East Falkland Island, Falkland

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How climate change is forcing animals that mate for life to break up

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Tiktaalik, an early fish that crawled on land

Life

Spine of early crawling fish was becoming more like a land animal's

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Tightly-curled hair appears to maximise the shielding effect from the sun while minimising an unwanted insulating effect

Humans

Curly hair may have evolved to protect early humans from the sun

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Paranthropus, early human relative

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Early hominin Paranthropus may have used sophisticated stone tools

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The coronavirus is continuing to mutate as it spreads

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Millions of coronavirus mutations offer a new insight into evolution

Using publicly available SARS-CoV-2 sequences, researchers have revealed the genetic sites that must be in a particular state for the coronavirus to survive and which can tolerate changes

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Health

Genes for Gaucher disease may have protected Jewish people against TB

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Mind

The evolutionary origin of paranoia and why it is becoming more common

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Humans

Neanderthals hunted enormous elephants that fed 100 people for a month

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Life

Animals that care for young may have more mutations and evolve faster

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