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Tail-Breathing Killifish Can Travel 6,000 Times Their Body Length On Landa killifish on land using its tail to leap and breathe thanks to blood near the surface of its skin

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Tail-Breathing Killifish Can Travel 6,000 Times Their Body Length On Landa killifish on land using its tail to leap and breathe thanks to blood near the surface of its skin
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Tail-Breathing Killifish Can Travel 6,000 Times Their Body Length On Land

clock-iconDecember 17, 2024
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These Ferns Can “Evolve Backward”, Challenging Our Assumptions About Plant EvolutionThe deer fern (Struthiopteris spicant)

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These Ferns Can “Evolve Backward”, Challenging Our Assumptions About Plant EvolutionThe deer fern (Struthiopteris spicant)
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These Ferns Can “Evolve Backward”, Challenging Our Assumptions About Plant Evolution

clock-iconDecember 16, 2024
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Why Are Human Brains So Impressively Big? Tiny Gut Bacteria Could Hold The Keyillustration of four stages of evolution from early primates to humans, with a line of different gut microbes running through them all

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Why Are Human Brains So Impressively Big? Tiny Gut Bacteria Could Hold The Keyillustration of four stages of evolution from early primates to humans, with a line of different gut microbes running through them all
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Why Are Human Brains So Impressively Big? Tiny Gut Bacteria Could Hold The Key

clock-iconDecember 3, 2024
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Meet The Purple Frog, A Dinosaur-Era “Living Fossil” That Emerged Over 80 Million Years Agoa purple frog female is very large, wearing her small purple frog mate as a backpack

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Meet The Purple Frog, A Dinosaur-Era “Living Fossil” That Emerged Over 80 Million Years Agoa purple frog female is very large, wearing her small purple frog mate as a backpack
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Meet The Purple Frog, A Dinosaur-Era “Living Fossil” That Emerged Over 80 Million Years Ago

clock-iconDecember 2, 2024
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Evolutionary Pressures Are Making Wild Turkeys Savvier, Threatening Thanksgiving FeastsWild Turkey bird in Minnesota

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Evolutionary Pressures Are Making Wild Turkeys Savvier, Threatening Thanksgiving FeastsWild Turkey bird in Minnesota
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Evolutionary Pressures Are Making Wild Turkeys Savvier, Threatening Thanksgiving Feasts

clock-iconNovember 29, 2024
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Human Brains Grew Steadily Over Millions Of Years Rather Than Showing Sudden LeapsNeanderthal family cooking over bonfire

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Human Brains Grew Steadily Over Millions Of Years Rather Than Showing Sudden LeapsNeanderthal family cooking over bonfire
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Human Brains Grew Steadily Over Millions Of Years Rather Than Showing Sudden Leaps

clock-iconNovember 28, 2024
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"Shared Genetic Architecture" Suggests Language And Musical Rhythm Evolved TogetherMale hands playing a traditional percussion drum musical instrument.

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"Shared Genetic Architecture" Suggests Language And Musical Rhythm Evolved TogetherMale hands playing a traditional percussion drum musical instrument.
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"Shared Genetic Architecture" Suggests Language And Musical Rhythm Evolved Together

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What Is The Closest Living Relative To T. Rex? You Might Be Surprisedclose up chicken foot in mud

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What Is The Closest Living Relative To T. Rex? You Might Be Surprisedclose up chicken foot in mud
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What Is The Closest Living Relative To T. Rex? You Might Be Surprised

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Groundbreaking “Genetic Time Machine” Reveals Evidence Of Cumulative Culture In Chimpanzeesa young chimpanzee learning how to use a rock tool from an older chimpanzee

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Groundbreaking “Genetic Time Machine” Reveals Evidence Of Cumulative Culture In Chimpanzeesa young chimpanzee learning how to use a rock tool from an older chimpanzee
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Groundbreaking “Genetic Time Machine” Reveals Evidence Of Cumulative Culture In Chimpanzees

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“Extraordinary” Mouse Created Using Gene That’s Older Than Animal Life ItselfThe mouse on the left has dark eyes and patches of black fur. The mouse on the right has red eyes and all white fur.

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“Extraordinary” Mouse Created Using Gene That’s Older Than Animal Life ItselfThe mouse on the left has dark eyes and patches of black fur. The mouse on the right has red eyes and all white fur.
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“Extraordinary” Mouse Created Using Gene That’s Older Than Animal Life Itself

clock-iconNovember 19, 2024
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Dinosaur-Era Bird Fills A 70-Million-Year Gap In The Evolution Of Bird Intelligencethe skeleton of a dinosaur-era bird with skull nearly perfectly intact, revealing its 3d structure

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Dinosaur-Era Bird Fills A 70-Million-Year Gap In The Evolution Of Bird Intelligencethe skeleton of a dinosaur-era bird with skull nearly perfectly intact, revealing its 3d structure
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Dinosaur-Era Bird Fills A 70-Million-Year Gap In The Evolution Of Bird Intelligence

clock-iconNovember 13, 2024
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The Chicken Or The Egg? We Might Need To Change The QuestionImages of the multicellular development of the ichthyosporean Chromosphaera perkinsii, a close cousin of animals. In red, the membranes and in blue the nuclei with their DNA. The image was obtained using expansion microscopy.

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The Chicken Or The Egg? We Might Need To Change The QuestionImages of the multicellular development of the ichthyosporean Chromosphaera perkinsii, a close cousin of animals. In red, the membranes and in blue the nuclei with their DNA. The image was obtained using expansion microscopy.
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The Chicken Or The Egg? We Might Need To Change The Question

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Animals Like Getting Drunk More Than We Realized, But We Don’t Know WhyLiving on fruits like those of this spondia mombin tree, spider monkeys are exposed to ethanol when the fruits ferment, but they may like it, and that could be quite common among animals

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Animals Like Getting Drunk More Than We Realized, But We Don’t Know WhyLiving on fruits like those of this spondia mombin tree, spider monkeys are exposed to ethanol when the fruits ferment, but they may like it, and that could be quite common among animals
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Animals Like Getting Drunk More Than We Realized, But We Don’t Know Why

clock-iconOctober 30, 2024
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Why Do We Kiss? Its Evolutionary Roots May Lie In The "Groomer's Final Kiss Hypothesis"One chimpanzee is closely examining the face of another. It has its left hand supporting the other ape's eyebrow while the other its right hand looks closely at its lip. The chimpanzee doing the grooming has its lips puckered like it is about to kiss the other one.

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Why Do We Kiss? Its Evolutionary Roots May Lie In The "Groomer's Final Kiss Hypothesis"One chimpanzee is closely examining the face of another. It has its left hand supporting the other ape's eyebrow while the other its right hand looks closely at its lip. The chimpanzee doing the grooming has its lips puckered like it is about to kiss the other one.
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Why Do We Kiss? Its Evolutionary Roots May Lie In The "Groomer's Final Kiss Hypothesis"

clock-iconOctober 28, 2024
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Tibetan Women Living At High Altitudes Adapt To Low Oxygen, Demonstrating Human Evolution In Real TimeA photo showing a monument made of piled clay-red stones and thin sticks assembled around what looks like different colored flags. The monument is on a hillside looking down on a Tibetan village nestled within green fields among harsh, barren looking hillsides.

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Tibetan Women Living At High Altitudes Adapt To Low Oxygen, Demonstrating Human Evolution In Real TimeA photo showing a monument made of piled clay-red stones and thin sticks assembled around what looks like different colored flags. The monument is on a hillside looking down on a Tibetan village nestled within green fields among harsh, barren looking hillsides.
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Tibetan Women Living At High Altitudes Adapt To Low Oxygen, Demonstrating Human Evolution In Real Time

clock-iconOctober 22, 2024
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