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Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, thanks to a remarkably well-preserved fossil

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Two yellow-bellied marmots on a rock in the Okanagan area of British Columbia, Canada

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Marmots could have the solution to a long-running debate in evolution

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Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

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Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

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A protein from a single-celled organism called Haloferax volcanii

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Weird microbes could help rewrite the origin of multicellular life

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CEY867 fresh mandarins, oranges

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How the evolution of citrus is inextricably linked with our own

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Dodo model on display at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

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Beth Shapiro: The ancient DNA pioneer’s mission to bring back the dodo

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Two injured comb jellies can merge to form one individual

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These fish have evolved legs that can find and taste buried food

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LATVIA. Jurmala. 1999.

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The fascinating truth about why common sense isn't really that common

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The cactus family’s surprising evolutionary journey

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The cactus family’s surprising evolutionary journey

We are finally untangling the ancient history of the cactus family, revealing some surprising forces that shaped these plants – and prompting concern for their future

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Health

How bad is modern life for our body clocks – and what can we do?

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Some flowers may have evolved long stems to be better ‘seen’ by bats

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The AI expert who says artificial general intelligence is nonsense

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Mind

Our fascination with monsters tells us a lot about ourselves

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