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Some of the best early human bones ever found

Humans

Homo naledi is only 250,000 years old – here’s why that matters

The latest species of extinct hominin to be discovered that promised to rewrite our history may have died out as modern humans came about

A replica of the skull of Homo naledi

Environment

Mystery human species Homo naledi had tiny but advanced brain

Humans

Mystery human hobbit ancestor may have been first out of Africa

fossils

Life

The heretical passion of the man who first described Parkinson’s

Ant carrying back injured nestmate

Environment

Soldier ants carry comrades wounded in raids back to base

Earth

Life could exist up to 10 kilometres beneath the sea floor

Life

Giant viruses may just be small viruses that stole hosts’ genes

São Tomé grosbeak

Environment

World’s largest canary discovered on island of giants and dwarfs

The new cavefish

Life

First ever cavefish discovered in Europe evolved super-fast

Mouse

Environment

Mice lived with us 15,000 years ago even before farming took off

House mice began to associate with humans when the Natufian people started settling in the eastern Mediterranean, before the advent of farming

Humans

Putting bigger brains down to our social nature is half-baked

Life

First dinosaurs may have been omnivores in the north hemisphere

Environment

Female fish with bigger brains choose better mates

Environment

These fish are evolving right now to become land-dwellers