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Social life of extinct sabre-toothed cat revealed by ancient DNA

15 October 2020

Homotherium, a sabre-toothed cat that lived in the Americas and Eurasia during the most recent ice age, was a swift and social predator, according to its genes
The evolutionary mystery of flying may finally be cracked by genetics

The evolutionary mystery of flying may finally be cracked by genetics

25 March 2020

Finding out how flight evolved or animals moved onto land is all about a collision of palaeontology and genetics, argue two new books

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