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Corona virus, illustration.

Health

How much more contagious could the coronavirus get?

The coronavirus is evolving to become more transmissible, and eventually it could even overtake measles, the most contagious virus we know of

A worker bee is attacking a newly emerged queen

Life

Some bee colonies have to kill thousands of 鈥榮elfish鈥� wannabe queens

Life

Why cat-like creatures vanished from North America for 6 million years

Humans

A West African writing system shows how letters evolve to get simpler

Bottlenose dolphins swim off the coast of South Carolina

Life

What dolphins reveal about the evolution of the clitoris

Salmon fish farm in fjord. Norway, Bergen.; Shutterstock ID 1091461793; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Life

Breeding with farmed fish is changing the life cycle of wild salmon

Life

Did monkeys really sail the oceans on floating rafts of vegetation?

Thousands of migrating Snow Geese ( Chen caerulescens ) fly from a misty lake at sunrise in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.; Shutterstock ID 546140620; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Life

Migrating birds may be paler colours to help them keep cool

PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY. SQUID GAMES, NETFLIX Season 1. Episode 4. Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo

Life

Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal

Life

Birds in the Amazon are adapting to climate change by getting smaller

An analysis of 77 tropical bird species in the Amazon shows that all of them have shrunk and a third developed longer wings over the past 40 years

Humans

Our Human Story newsletter: The patterns of domestication

Life

Penis worms had hermit crab-like defence system 530 million years ago

Life

Brainless sponges have cells that might be the precursors of neurons

Life

Vipers evolved either nose or eye horns depending on their habitat