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No One Knows How the Biggest Animals on Earth–Baleen Whales–Find Their Food
How do giant filter-feeding whales find their tiny prey? The answer could be key to saving endangered species Continue reading
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Extreme Birding Competition Is a Cutthroat Test of Skill, Strategy and Endurance
A team of birders races to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours
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The Complexity of Napoleon Chagnon, Anthropology’s Lightning Rod
Unpublished excerpts from a 2000 interview capture one of the most controversial figures in modern science
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Fossil Pigments Reveal Dinosaur Origin of Bird Egg Colors
The hues and patterns of modern bird eggs trace back to their dinosaurian ancestors
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Why Is Homo sapiens the Sole Surviving Member of the Human Family?
Recent fossil, archaeological and genetic discoveries are revising the rise of our species
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Stone Tools from India Fan Debate over Origins of Cultural Complexity
The tools could suggest that Homo sapiens reached South Asia far earlier than previously thought, but critics disagree
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Controversial Fossil Hints Homo sapiens Blazed a Trail Out of Africa Earlier Than Thought
The jaw fragment suggests our species began traveling abroad 50,000 years earlier than previously thought
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Meet Neo, a Spectacular New Fossil of Homo naledi
A remarkably complete skeleton and, at last, an age for mysterious Homo naledi
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Ancient Fossils from Morocco Mess Up Modern Human Origins
Dated to more than 300,000 years ago, the finds raise key questions about the defining features of Homo sapiens and how our kind came to be
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New Evidence of Mysterious Homo naledi Raises Questions about How Humans Evolved
The much-anticipated dating of the enigmatic species, along with stunning new fossils, challenge key assumptions about human evolution
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Ancient Bones Spark Fresh Debate over First Humans in the Americas
A study of remains found in southern California puts an unknown human species in the New World more than 100,000 years earlier than expected—but critics aren’t buying it
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Ancient Stone Tools Force Rethinking of Human Origins
3.3-million-year-old artifacts from Kenya upend the classic story of when and how humans became innovators
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The Evolution of Human Metabolism
Our metabolic engine fueled the emergence of hallmark traits
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Monkeys Make Stone "Tools" That Bear a Striking Resemblance to Early Human Artifacts
The discovery could necessitate the reanalysis of enigmatic stones previously attributed to human origins
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Controversy Swirls around Latest Addition to Human Family Tree
An astonishing trove of fossils has scientists, and the media, in a tizzy over our origins
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Reading Neandertal Minds
Analyses of anatomy, DNA and cultural remains have yielded tantalizing insights into the inner lives of our mysterious extinct cousins
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Tiny Genetic Differences between Humans and Other Primates Pervade the Genome
Genome comparisons reveal the DNA that distinguishes Homo sapiens from its kin
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Wild Monkeys’ Stone "Tools" Force a Rethink of Human Uniqueness
The artifacts bear a striking resemblance to objects produced by our ancestors
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Controversy and Excitement Swirl around New Human Species
An astonishing trove of fossils has scientists, and the media, in a tizzy over our origins
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The Story of Us: Humanity’s 7-Million-Year Journey
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The Story of Us: Humanity’s 7-Million-Year Journey
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Fossil Sleuthing Hints at What Killed "Lucy," Our Iconic Ancestor
CT images show fractures like those from a fall, but the original finder of her remains isn’t convinced
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Camera Trap Photographs Capture India’s Wild Tigers
The images are helping conservationists estimate population sizes of the secretive cats
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Fossils Hint at Long-Sought Ancestor of Weirdest Human Species
700,000-year-old remains from Indonesia could elucidate the murky origins of the “hobbits” in our family tree
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Meet the Early Mammals
A flurry of fossil discoveries over the past 15 years is allowing researchers to piece together the rise of mammals
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