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2018 preview: Get ready to meet your newest long-lost ancestor

Fossils from our ancient relatives have been turning up at an increasing rate, and rumours are rife that the next new species is about to drop

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Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane

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Great tits avoid bad food after seeing grossed-out friends

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Great tits avoid bad food after seeing grossed-out friends

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This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era

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This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era

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Humans

Effortless thinking: Adapting our need to feel part of the gang

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Humans

Effortless thinking: The god-shaped hole in your brain

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Humans

Effortless thinking: Why we're all born to be status quo fans

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Effortless thinking: Why stereotyping is an evolutionary trap

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Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence

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Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence

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Lizards re-evolved eggs after thousands of years of live births

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Lizards re-evolved eggs after thousands of years of live births

It’s an evolutionary U-turn: a group of egg-laying lizards evolved from live-bearing ancestors, which are in turn descended from even older egg-layers

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Why do female monkeys spend so long looking at rugged males?

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Hummingbirds have massive hearts to power their hovering flight

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Baby pterosaurs were cute, defenceless and unable to fly

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Space

Weird tiny galaxies found hiding in Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field

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