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11 February 2022
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Evolution is evolving: 13 ways we must rethink the theory of nature
23 September 2020
Do species really exist? Are genes destiny? Do only the fittest survive? Can we shape or stop evolution? New insights into nature are providing surprising answers, and a glorious new picture of life’s complexity
Wild animals are turning nocturnal to keep away from humans
14 June 2018
Dozens of species all around the world are abandoning the day and becoming more active at night, to avoid contact with humans
In big cities even the fish are always rushing around the place
25 May 2018
Two common US fish have evolved different body shapes to help them survive in the fast-moving streams in built-up areas
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming
24 May 2018
The asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago caused dramatic climate change, which could mean we are underestimating how much the planet will warm in the coming centuries
Chinese giant salamanders may already be virtually extinct
21 May 2018
Researchers spent four years looking for Chinese giant salamanders and only found 24 – and that’s not even the worst bit of news
A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land
30 April 2018
A plant fossil that lay unnoticed for a century is unexpectedly large for something so old, and it could upend our ideas about the evolution of land plants
Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth
21 March 2018
A strange discovery, made by polar explorer Robert Scott a century ago, might explain how complex life survived when the planet froze over into “Snowball Earth”
Our lust for tastier chocolate has transformed the cocoa tree
27 December 2017
Ever since we domesticated the cocoa tree over 3000 years ago, we have been breeding them to make tastier chocolate – but in the process we have made them vulnerable
Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths
10 November 2017
Many giant mammals in the Americas have died out but it has been hard to say whether humans or natural events were responsible. Now, in the Caribbean at least, we know
