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The human penis is 'conservative' compared to other members of the animal kingdom - and now a scientist reveals why this is.

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It used to be thought that sea urchins only had a primitive nervous system, but new research has found that they are far more complex than that. The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are ...

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In a quiet corner of western Thailand, researchers recently uncovered a spider so unique it defies conventional understanding. Not only is this extraordinary spider a member of an entirely new species ...

It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...