Norwegian Lemming Confirmed as One of the Newest Mammal Species on Earth todayheadline
New research has revealed that the Norwegian lemming is one of the youngest mammals on Earth. The team found that ...
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Millions of years of evolution could be wiped out on ‘Galapagos of the Indian Ocean,’ conservationists warn
Sitting off the Horn of Africa, the Yemeni island of Socotra was largely left to its own devices for centuries, ...
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Ash trees are rapidly evolving some resistance to ash dieback disease todayheadline
Some ash trees have genetic variants that confer partial resistance to ash diebackFLPA / Alamy Ash trees in the UK ...
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Women’s pelvises are shrinking – how is that changing childbirth? todayheadline
Medical advances have changed childbirth – potentially enough to impact human evolutionFatCamera/Getty Images Women’s pelvises have become narrower over the ...
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Our big brains may have evolved because of placental sex hormones todayheadline
Exposure to hormones in utero could affect human brain growthPeter Dazeley/Getty Images The human brain is one of the most ...
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Were Hominins in Europe 6 Million Years Ago? Footprint Find Sparks Debate todayheadline
Footprints that stroll through a patchy area of Grecian beach 6 million years ago has caused researchers to rethink the ...
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Fossils Show That These Ancient Frog Families Split Apart at Least 55 Million Years Ago todayheadline
Australia and South America weren’t always so separate. At one time, many millions of years ago, these two continents were ...
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UV Light Helps Us Understand Why the Archaeopteryx Was Such a Good Flier todayheadline
Archaeopteryx lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period. Although the first Archaeopteryx fossil was discovered more than ...
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Humans evolved to survive mild burns at the expense of severe ones todayheadline
Hominins have been using fire for various reasons for at least 1 million yearsSHEILA TERRY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Mastering fire may ...
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The Woolly Mammoth’s Evolutionary History Over a Million Years Was a Complex Web todayheadline
The results of searching the family tree of the woolly mammoth have been surprising; it turns out the beasts we ...
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