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Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than we thought

A fossil discovery in northern Ethiopia expands the known range of Paranthropus, a genus of strong-jawed hominins that lived around 2 million years ago, and suggests they lived in a range of habitats

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Common Octopus

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Octopuses prompt rethink of why animals evolve big brains

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Hominin fossils from Morocco may be close ancestors of modern humans

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Jellyfish sleep about as much as humans do – and nap like us too

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Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a Miocene ape

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Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or did it walk upright?

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Green DNA with trees

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Human-plant hybrid cells reveal truth about dark DNA in our genome

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2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

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What the family drama of interbreeding polar and grizzly bears reveals

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A hand holding glowing prion proteins, from which fossils and microbes emerge.

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A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life

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The bones arranged in the approximate anatomical position of the right foot

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Ancient human foot bones shed light on how two species coexisted

��˾þ�s have finally assigned foot bones found in 2009 to an ancient human species, and the move suggests that different types of hominins lived close by in harmony

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Sperm's evolutionary origins go back before multicellular animals

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Kissing may have evolved in an ape ancestor 21 million years ago

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New Denisovan discovery could rewrite our family tree

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Sperm are selfish – and so are we

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