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Our ancestors and cousins didn't all live in the shadows of the Mesozoic world—some were burly carnivores
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A harsh environment might have led Homo erectus to evolve complex societies similar to those of desert-dwelling hamadryas baboons
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A new twist in the million dollar Tarbosaurus controversy may send this dinosaur home
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A team of Italian scientists has uses infrared light to detect artistic flourishes that are invisible to the naked eye
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Flying foxes can defoliate trees, but should the Royal Botanic Garden shoo this vulnerable species from its grounds?
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A new museum exhibit presents one of the largest dinosaurs ever found
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They sure make pretty pictures, but are we exaggerating what they can really tell us about what's going on inside our heads?
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Genetic remnants of an ancient infection indicate the mysterious Denisovans, not humans, are Neanderthals' closest cousins
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Cataracts, slipped discs, epidemics, glandular problems and even a loss of sex drive have all been proposed as the reason non-avian dinosaurs perished
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A rare fossil shows that duck-billed dinosaurs were not so duck-like after all
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Recognized for his role in animal conservation, Amstrup explains what climate change is doing to the arctic and what he's doing to stop it
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Fatherhood remains a ripe subject for scientific research. Here are 10 recent studies on the transformation from man to dad
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The plan will protect the Coral Sea as well as pygmy blue whale habitat off the southern coast of Western Australia
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Apatosaurus means "deceptive lizard," and a short cartoon offers a new interpretation of that name
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A new study indicates that temperate regions will experience more fires, while equatorial areas will see fewer
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Louis Leakey popularized the study of human evolution and sparked the search for human ancestors in Africa
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A new nano-technology can be applied to metals and causes ice and frost to slide off before they have a chance to stick
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Paleontologists are describing new dinosaurs at an unprecedented pace, but there's much we still don't know about the biology of these animals
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The Hubble Space Telescope shows that we're on a collision course with the nearby Andromeda galaxy—and set to crash in about 4 billion years
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Where and when did humans domesticate dogs, pigs, cows and other animals?
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