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Dali skull

Humans

Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

The 260,000-year-old Dali skull was found in China, but it looks a lot like the earliest known members of our species – which were found in Africa

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Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

Earth

Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

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Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

Life

Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

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Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day

Life

Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day

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There is a third species of orangutan and somehow nobody noticed

Life

There is a third species of orangutan and somehow nobody noticed

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Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food

Life

Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food

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RNA

Humans

The very first living thing is still alive inside each one of us

Features

Panda

Life

The first ancestors of giant pandas probably lived in Europe

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

Humans

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

Life

Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

A bird group named the Vegaviidae, which resembled modern loons and geese, is the first identified with members that lived before and after the Cretaceous extinction

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Life

Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

News

Earth

The mass extinction that might never have happened

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Life

Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends

Culture

Life

Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

Culture