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A new study has cast doubt on the idea that climate change wiped out most of Australia's huge beasts.
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Researchers in Brazil have warned that some vampire bat populations have started targeting humans.
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An eerily realistic robot designed to emulate a human woman has been turning heads this week in China.
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Scientists have found a way to identify the DNA of our ancestors from prehistoric bone dust samples.
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A new study has suggested that it would not take long for a zombie apocalypse to wipe out mankind.
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The mesentery is found inside the digestive system and has only now been identified as a single organ.
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Researchers at the University of Bristol have found cooking pot fragments dating back over 10,000 years.
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Several sets of footprints left by an ancient human ancestor have been found at the site of a new museum.
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The oldest human being on Earth, Emma Morano, is the last person alive to have seen the 19th century.
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It takes the average person only 0.25 seconds to tell that an android is not an actual human being.
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Hints of an unknown species of human have been found in the DNA of the modern day Melanesian people.
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Dr Fergus Simpson maintains that humanity has a 13% chance of going extinct before the century is out.
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NASA's 'impossible' propulsion system continues to intrigue as it receives its first peer-reviewed paper.
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The President-elect is hoping to send humans back to the Moon - and beyond - within the next few decades.
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The Dutch company has unveiled a preliminary design for a space suit that may one day be worn on mars.
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Scientists studying bonobos reveal that it is not only humans who suffer from diminishing eyesight.
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A team of designers from the Netherlands have somehow managed to reinvent the humble staircase.
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Dominant hand preference appears to date back to a time long before modern humans arrived on the scene.
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Forget haggis - Neolithic Scots living on the islands may have once had an appetite for the humble vole.
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The US President has reiterated his efforts to send humans to the Red Planet within the coming decades.