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Calorie boost may explain why adults evolved ability to digest milk

Why some people evolved the ability to digest milk in adulthood hasn't been clear, but the extra calories that young children got may have been key

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The Age of Cats review: How our furry friends evolved, and what’s next

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The Age of Cats review: How our furry friends evolved, and what’s next

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Balto's genome reveals famed sledge dog was a mutt

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A black-and-white photo of a man dressed in warm furs crouching down next to Balto, a dog that appears to be a dark-furred husky type dog. Behind them is a brick building.

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Evolutionary oddball has seven genomes inside a single cell

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Artistic rendering of Morotopithecus

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Early break-up of eastern African forests shaped our ape ancestors

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Bone fragment reveals humans wore leather clothes 39,000 years ago

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Sleeping Beauties review: The strange nature of nature's inventiveness

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Skates evolved their undulating wings thanks to genome origami

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Seahorses use a spring motion to quickly capture their food

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Seahorses have a super strong gulp thanks to two spring-like tendons

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Wild African elephants may have domesticated themselves

African savannah elephants play, care for their young and show social behaviours associated with domestic animals, despite never being domesticated by humans

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An African bush elephant in Amboseli National Park, Kenya

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Ants independently evolved to farm fungus at least twice

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T. rex’s terrifying teeth would have been hidden behind scaly lips

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Our attempts to kill cockroaches forced them to evolve new sex moves

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City life may help Darwin's finches survive bloodsucking flies

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