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The Amazon molly is an all-female fish that ditched sexual reproduction entirely, thriving for over 100,000 years through ...

A professor of anthropology explores how early hominids ate prehistoric elephants to survive.

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Scientists discover a tiny ancient reptile, Captorhinus aguti, that may explain how rib breathing evolved and how humans ...

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Animal life began in aquatic environments more than 600 million years ago. Around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian ...

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Great apes copy facial expressions of other apes with exact detail, a behavior that may reveal how human communication first ...