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Plesiosaurs evolved awkward long necks thanks to their big bodies
An ultra-long neck would seem to put aquatic plesiosaurs at a disadvantage, but it turns out their big bodies helped avoid drag while swimming
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Watch male orb-weaving spiders catapult off females to escape death
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Blind Mexican cave fish are developing cave-specific accents
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Male crossbills grow redder feathers when they exercise harder
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Genomes of hundreds of extinct species revealed by rewinding evolution
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Mammals grew big after dinosaurs died but their brains stayed small
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Ostrich necks act as a radiator to control their head temperature
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Creatures living in our cities are evolving in some surprising ways
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Sorry Darwin, but it turns out promiscuity benefits females too
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Burst of animal evolution altered chemical make-up of Earth’s mantle
The Cambrian explosion 500 million years ago saw a huge variety of animals evolve 鈥� and also led to carbon being buried in the seabed and ultimately carried into the planet鈥檚 mantle
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Tyrannosaurus rex may actually be three separate species
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Largest ever family tree of humanity reveals our species’ history
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106-million-year-old virus found 鈥榝ossilised鈥� in the human genome
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