This stone tool is over 1 million years old. How did its maker get to Sulawesi without a boat?
Our discovery also leads us to wonder what might have happened to Homo erectus on the…
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An underwater observatory keeping the pulse of the Southern Ocean for nearly 30 years yields fresh results
In a world affected by climate change, the Southern Ocean plays an outsized role. It absorbs…
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Five arms, no heart and a global family: what DNA revealed about the weird deep-sea world of brittle stars
You may have read that the deep sea is a very different environment from the land…
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Birds use hidden black and white feathers to make themselves more colourful
Birds are perhaps the most colourful group of animals, bringing a splash of colour to the…
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New study peers beneath the skin of iconic lizards to find ‘chainmail’ bone plates – and lots of them
Monitor lizards, also known in Australia as goannas, are some of the most iconic reptiles on…
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Scientists could be accidentally damaging fossils with a method we thought was safe
Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few…
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The southern hemisphere is full of birds found nowhere else on Earth. Their importance has been overlooked
The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one…
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Species at 30 makes for a great guilty pleasure
That said, Giger didn’t much care for the final film, which he thought was much too…
