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Humans Are Growing Weird, Bone Spikes on Their Skulls. Smartphones May Be the Culprit.

By Laura Geggel published

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The fabella (white arrows), a tiny bone hidden in the tendon of the knee, is increasing in prevalence in the population.

This Tiny Knee Bone Had Nearly Vanished As Humans Evolved. It's Coming Back

By Yasemin Saplakoglu published

Why is this tiny bone making a comeback?

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African elephants.

Humans Are Eating Most of Earth's Largest Animals to Extinction

By Brandon Specktor published

Humans are hunting and eating 60 percent of Earth's largest animals into an early grave.

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Dinosaur illustration

Could Evolution Ever Bring Back the Dinosaurs?

By Jane Labous published

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for hundreds of millions of years before they died in an asteroid blast 66 million years ago. So, could these gigantic reptiles ever re-evolve back to our modern world?

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In a recent study, scientists compared the skull of Little Foot (shown here) with that of other hominins.

Brain of Mysterious 'Little Foot' Human Relative Was Half-Man, Half-Ape

By Stephanie Pappas published

The brain of a very old human ancestor looks a lot like an ape's and a little like a human's.

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Puppy-Size Roaches (and Other Bizarre Creatures) Pop Up in 'Beyond the Sixth Extinction'

By Mindy Weisberger published

In a toxic landscape of the future, what strange animals might evolve?

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Frances H. Arnold from the California Institute of Technology was awarded one half of the award, while George P. Smith from the University of Missouri and Sir Gregory P. Winter from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the UK shared the second half.

Chemistry Nobel Awarded to Scientists for Taking the Reins on Evolution

By Yasemin Saplakoglu published

Evolution is unfolding in test tubes.

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opium poppy

How Did Opium Poppies Get Their Painkilling Properties?

By Leslie Nemo published

Humans have been turning to the poppy plant to get high or relieve pain for thousands of years.

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Early Humans Probably Didn't Evolve from a Single Population in Africa

By Yasemin Saplakoglu published

Did humans evolve from one population in Africa? Probably not.

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The entire Selam skeleton.

Ancient Human Ancestors Had to Deal with Climbing Toddlers

By Kimberly Hickok published

A new discovery finds that our ancestors' toddlers had a special toe that made them better suited for climbing compared to the adults.

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