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The 12000 Year Old Skeleton That Reveals Humanity’s First Known Act of Violence in Southeast Asia

How Potatoes Evolved

Turritopsis dohrnii: Immortal jellyfish

About 70% of the world's plastic pollution comes from just 20 countries, where the sheer amount of waste exceeds their ability to manage it properly

North Sea oil and gas extraction can cause pollution to spike by more than 10,000% within half a kilometer around off-shore sites

Face of ancient Australian 'giga-goose' revealed after fossil skull found

Octopuses Keep Surprising Us

Water levels in as many as a third of the world’s aquifers are declining faster now than they did 40 years ago as we take water out of the ground faster than it can be replaced..

Almost half of marine mammals around the UK are being poisoned by banned chemicals

Serotine bats have sex unlike any other mammal: with the penis of male serotine bats being too big for penetration, instead the animals touch their genitals together to mate - a style of sex more similar to birds than any known mammal

Oldest bat skeletons ever found described as new species

Sauropod specimen found in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region may have had the longest neck of any known dinosaur — measuring about 15.1 m, more than the height of the Hollywood sign

Trilobite tridents could be the oldest evidence of male sexual combat — Fighting for mates may be a behaviour that dates back over 400 million years

Earth’s oldest evidence of life – Australian fossils dating to about 3.48 billion years ago – could provide hints of what scientists should look for on Mars

As many as a fifth of all asteroids in the asteroid belt may have been formed out on the fringes of the solar system

Another primate (out of 12 species) observed to nose-picking, booger-eating for the first time: the finger of the aye-aye can reach through its nose to the back of its throat, with the animals seen licking off the gathered mucus, this could play an important role in the immune syste

Wildlife Photographer of the Year (2021)

Size, not sex, is key to the development of wildebeest horns. Sexual selection is driving the development of horns in both males & females

How do other animals see the world?

Shark evolution: a 450M year timeline

Paper suggests there are three Tyrannosaurus species

Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths

Sea monsters and their inspiration: serpents, mermaids, the kraken and more

The Siberian unicorn lived at the same time as modern humans

Octopuses are among the strangest creatures on the planet

Horseshoe crab blood: miracle vaccine ingredient that's saved millions of lives

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Digitising Darwin’s Fossil Mammals

Dragon-like reptiles with huge heads and ‘steak knife’ teeth lived before the dinosaurs

The World's Largest Bee 'Rediscovered' After 38 Years

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