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50 Historical Figures That We Are Lucky Enough To Have Photos Of (New Pics)

Photographs make time travel possible. They often provide a blast from the past that gives us a sliver of an idea of how life was back then. They represent a moment in history when a renowned figure was still alive. Here are some examples that can be a delight for…

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What I’ve learned from studying the wild pigeon

Domestic pigeons have surprising cultural significance. They inspired Charles Darwin in his thinking about evolution, delivered wartime messages to save lives, and have symbolic meaning around the world.

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A speeding clock could solve Darwin’s mystery of gaps in animal fossil records

The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that are 538 million years old.

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‘They didn’t de-extinct anything’: can Colossal’s genetically engineered animals ever be the real thing?

The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment – and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailed

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40 Celebrities And Their Lookalikes From The Past That The Internet Can’t Stop Talking About

History has a funny way of repeating itself, and we’ve uncovered 40 celebrity lookalikes from the past that prove it.

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From Charles Darwin to Noel Gallagher, here’s inspiration for young stammerers

Letters: Peter Botha sings the praises of the Stuttering Foundation website’s ‘celebrity corner’ pages

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve had all the luck you can get’: Michael Caine retires for the fourth time

The 92-year-old actor made the announcement again as he received an award at the Red Sea international film festival in Saudi Arabia

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The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals

Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive

The Guardian - US

Galápagos had no native amphibians. Then it was invaded by hundreds of thousands of frogs

Scientists are only beginning to grasp the scale of the issue and understand what impact the tree frogs may have on the islands’ rare wildlife

The Guardian - UK

Coral Triangle: The giant hidden 'Amazon' beneath the sea that appears somewhat resilient to climate change

The Coral Triangle is an extremely biodiverse patch of ocean around the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. Its relatively murky waters appear to shield it against climate change — for now.

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Science costs money – research is guided by who funds it and why

Scientists have always needed someone to help foot the bill for their work.

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Birds all over the world use the same sound to warn of threats

Language enables us to connect with each other and coordinate to achieve incredible feats. Our ability to communicate abstract concepts is often seen as a defining feature of our species, and one that separates us from the rest of life on Earth.

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Nature’s not perfect: fig wasps try to balance sex ratios for survival but they can get it wrong

Television nature programmes and scientific papers tend to celebrate the perfection of evolved traits. But the father of evolution through natural selection, Charles Darwin, warned that evolution would produce quirks and “blunders” that reflect a lineage’s history.

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‘Publish or perish’ evolutionary pressures shape scientific publishing, for better and worse

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from the inside-out.

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Michael Caine comes out of retirement (again) for Vin Diesel sequel

The veteran actor will be reprising his role as a priest who helps Diesel’s immortal warrior stop the plague in The Last Witch Hunter 2

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50 Times Wild Animals Were Turned Into Hilarious Memes

Who knew how much we have in common with these wild animals?

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50 Times Wild Animals Were Turned Into Hilarious Memes

Who knew how much we have in common with these wild animals?

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40 Fascinating Facts That People Learned Today And Couldn’t Wait To Share (New Facts)

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Size matters, but so does beauty and vigour — at least when it comes to peacocks

In 1871, Charles Darwin introduced his theory of sexual selection by female choice in The Descent of Man. He suggested females of a species would exhibit a preference for beauty and ornamentation when choosing mates, leading to a prevalence of those traits.

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Alien: Earth team says the new show’s Xenomorph is "an animal in an ecosystem" with other "predatory" creatures, and explains the subtle design differences

Exclusive | Alien: Earth is doing something a little different with H.R. Giger's perfect organism

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In Darwin's Wake: Two-year Global Conservation Voyage Sparks Hope

After a two-year around-the-world ocean voyage inspired by Charles Darwin, scientists and crew sailed home on a historic vessel into Rotterdam Thursday bearing a warning about climate change -- but also a message of hope.

The Guardian - UK

‘Best job in the natural world’: seed collector enlisted as modern-day Darwin to document the world’s plants

Newly appointed expedition botanist Matthew Jeffery feels ‘daunted’ but inspired by his unique globetrotting role collecting wild species

The Conversation

How do we understand life on Earth? An 18th-century rivalry charts the tension between two types of science ‘genius’

The modern science biography must hold back no punches in its mission to represent the subject’s life, equally celebrating their great works while including their personal shortcomings.

The Guardian - US

‘What should be taught in schools?’: the infamous ‘Scopes monkey trial’ turns 100

In 1925, a Tennessee battle over teaching evolution in schools gripped the US and, as festivities commemorate the chaos, the case remains grimly relevant

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1 in 4 Americans reject evolution, a century after the Scopes monkey trial spotlighted the clash between science and religion

The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, was one of the earliest and most iconic conflicts in America’s ongoing culture war.

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