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• Giant predatory dinosaur Spinosaurus was scourge of prehistoric rivers

  11 Sep 2014: Fossil remains found in Morocco add to evidence that huge meat-eating Spinosaurus spent most of its time in water

• Human DNA belongs to no one - it shouldn't be patented

  8 Sep 2014: Luigi Palombi: The Australian federal court ruled that isolated human genetic material can be patented. The US supreme court disagrees – and the Americans got it exactly right

• New to nature No 133: Aulacoseira coroniformis

  7 Sep 2014:

  This single-celled alga known as a diatom helps tell the tale of a Florida ecosystem's evolution, writes Quentin Wheeler

• Epigenetics: genes, environment and the generation game

  7 Sep 2014:

  New research claims that environmental factors can affect the genes of our offspring. Diabetes, obesity – even certain phobias – may be influenced by our forebears. By Angela Saini

• Murmuration over Otmoor

  6 Sep 2014: GrrlScientist: Tens of thousands of starlings produce spectacular sky shows with their movements at sunset as they gather together every evening during autumn and winter.

• Tourists to gain access to excavations for hominid bones in South Africa

  5 Sep 2014: Viewing platform and webcams at Cradle of Humankind site will allow visitors to look into pit during digs for early human fossils

• Why do we love dinosaurs so much?

  5 Sep 2014: Brian Switek: The discovery of a new dinosaur is always a cause for joy. To contemplate these mysterious creatures is to contemplate the mystery of life on Earth

• Stop the panda slander: the bears don't breed just for your viewing pleasure

  4 Sep 2014: Jules Howard: The panda industrial complex is a weird, perverted Build-A-Bear Workshop driven in part by profit and international chest-beating

• Before there were none

  3 Sep 2014: GrrlScientist: What was it like to witness a flock of passenger pigeons flying overhead? What did this spectacle look and sound like? Start by imagining a murmuration of starlings multiplied by a thousand times ...

• Propane made with renewable process for the first time

  2 Sep 2014: Scientists modify E coli genes to produce gas that can power cars and heat homes
  

• The passenger pigeon by Errol Fuller - review

  2 Sep 2014: GrrlScientist: written by an artist and authority on extinct species, this book shares rare photographs and other visual materials to provide a general overview to the history of the extinct passenger pigeon.

• South Africa's ancient cycad plants under threat from poachers

  1 Sep 2014: Experts warn that lucrative trade in endangered varieties of the world’s oldest seed plant could lead to extinction, after 24 rare cycads stolen from Cape Town botanical gardens
  

• Plants in offices increase happiness and productivity

  1 Sep 2014: Study suggests that minimalist offices produce miserable employees because 'sometimes less is just less'

• Labs in the lab: how scientists aim to root out disease in dogs

  31 Aug 2014:

  The UK's most popular pedigree dog is to have its genome sequenced. The results will provide a poweful tool in fighting canine diseases, writes Robin McKie

• Why the calls of the wild may be more complex than zoologists first thought

  30 Aug 2014: Mathematical models offer new insights into animal vocal sequences, but evolution of language remains a mystery

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