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Origolestes lii skeleton

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Cretaceous fossils are missing link in mammal ear evolution

Newly discovered mammal fossils reveal the crucial evolutionary step when the bones for hearing and chewing finally separated

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A single gene controls how our faces develop when we are young

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A single gene controls how our faces develop when we are young

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Martin Rees

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Martin Rees: Humanity's future – predictions for the next century

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Our incredible origins: The astonishing tale of Homo naledi

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Fossil of a newly-discovered mammal shows it had bizarre ears

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Fossil of a newly-discovered mammal shows it had bizarre ears

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Lascaux II replica of a Lascaux cave painting. These are horse and cow figures in the central gallery. The original Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963. The full-scale Lascaux II replica opened nearby in 1983. The Lascaux cave paintings in south-western France, around 17,000 years old, were painted by Cro-Magnon man, an early European culture of modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens), using red, brown and yellow ochre, and black manganese dioxide. They may have had religious and artistic significance. Photographed in 2010.

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Stone Age artists were obsessed with horses and we don’t know why

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Huge mysterious ape Gigantopithecus was a distant cousin of orangutans

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Huge mysterious ape Gigantopithecus was a distant cousin of orangutans

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Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

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leaf-like rangeomorphs

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The bizarre plant-like animals that say life’s big bang never happened

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Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

An extinct ape that lived in Germany 11.6 million years ago may have been bipedal – even though walking upright is the hallmark of more human-like species

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Have we found the African origin of all humanity? It's complicated

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World's loudest male bird bellows at females sitting right next to it

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Giant toad looks and acts like a venomous snake to scare off predators

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Long strand of DNA from Neanderthals found in people from Melanesia

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