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Paraliparis selti

Life

Surprisingly bright blue fish discovered in the darkest ocean depths

Most snailfish living in the deepest ocean realm known as the hadal zone are ghostly white with tiny eyes. But a newly described species has large eyes and is intensely blue

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Pangurban

Life

Cat-like sabre-toothed carnivore evolved faster than we thought

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Watching someone itch can trigger the same impulse in others

Mind

Why itching can be contagious: Reflex pathway is identified in mice

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Fewer than expected boys were born in England and Wales three months after lockdown was introduced

Health

Fewer boys born in England and Wales in early stage of the pandemic

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A series of hominoid crania (counterclockwise from the L): juvenile Australopithecus, adult Australopithecus, adult chimpanzee, juvenile chimpanzee, adult Homo erectus (center). Specimens photographed at the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

Humans

Our ancestors’ prenatal growth sped up after we split from chimps

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Geneticist Svante Pääbo has been awarded a Nobel prize for his work on evolutionary genetics

Health

Nobel prize awarded for study of human evolution using ancient DNA

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TR6FYA bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae, Calypte helenae), male on a branch, Cuba, Zapata National Park

Life

These male hummingbirds evolved to be tiny so they can do cool dives

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Pantolambda

Life

Early mammals lived faster and died younger than modern ones

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Cup fungus (Dasyscyphella nivea) covered in water droplets, beside Zygote fungi (Zygomycota), close up. Hertfordshire, England, UK. November. Focus stacked image.

Life

Fungi evolved their weird and wild shapes in two big bursts

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A large, black Newfoundland dog with drool dripping from its half open mouth

Life

Mucus has evolved at least 15 times in mammals

Mucus-producing mucin proteins have repeatedly and independently emerged in mammals, possibly through co-option of existing proteins into slime factories

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Humans

Human ancestors may have walked on two legs 7 million years ago

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Life

Sac with a mouth and no anus wasn't our earliest ancestor after all

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Humans

Losing parts of our voice box may have helped humans evolve to speak

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Humans

Shape of human brain has barely changed in past 160,000 years

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