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The Sciences

Early Hominins Perfected a Stone Tool That Survived 300,000 Years of Climate Chaos

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Neanderthals Made Ochre Crayons 130,000 Years Ago, Showing Evidence of a Colorful Culture

A pack of Nanotyrannus attacks a juvenile T. rex

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Lindsay Zanno, associate research professor at North Carolina State University and head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, with the Dueling Dinosaurs fossil.

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The Dueling Dinosaurs Mystery May Have Been Solved &mdash; The Baby <em>T. rex</em> Was Instead a Nanotyrannus

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This Ancient Species of Arctic Rhino May Have Crossed a Land Bridge 23 Million Years Ago

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Ancient Crocodile Fossil from Egyptian Desert Rewrites One of Earth&#39;s Greatest Survival Stories

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The Human Tailbone May Not be Needed, But It Remains a Feature of Our Ancient Past

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Early Humans Outsprinted Other Apes in Evolution, Growing a Larger Brain at a Faster Rate

Breugnathair elgolensis, half snake half lizard from ancient Scotland 

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This Species of Ancient Scottish Reptile Is Part Snake and Part Lizard

Galbula ruficauda eating a moth or butterfly

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Planet Earth

Animals Choose to Hide or Flaunt Their Colors Based on Light Conditions and Predator Behavior

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Culture Could Be Driving Human Evolution and Turning Us Into Superorganisms

An illustration of a larval fish, indicating its cloaca with a black dot.

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fingers tracing over the surface of a pool 

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Our Fingers and Toes Trace Their Origins to a Surprising Structure in Fish, And It Isn&rsquo;t Their Fins

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Frequent Volcano Eruptions Can Wipe Out Plant Species, But Also Help Them Evolve and Thrive

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进化

早期古人类完善了一种石器，它在30万年的气候混乱中幸存下来

尼安德特人在13万年前制作赭石蜡笔，展现了多彩文化的证据

“决斗恐龙”之谜或已解开——幼年霸王龙实为矮暴龙

这种古老的北极犀牛可能在2300万年前穿越了一座陆桥

来自埃及沙漠的古代鳄鱼化石改写了地球上最伟大的生存故事之一

人类尾骨或许不再需要，但它仍是我们远古过去的特征

早期人类在进化中超越了其他猿类，以更快的速度长出了更大的大脑

这种古老的苏格兰爬行动物物种既像蛇又像蜥蜴

动物根据光照条件和捕食者行为选择隐藏或炫耀其颜色

文化可能正在驱动人类进化，并将我们变成超个体

我们的手指和脚趾的起源可追溯到鱼类中一个令人惊讶的结构，而且不是它们的鳍

频繁的火山喷发可以消灭植物物种，但也有助于它们进化和繁荣

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