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• Readers recommend: songs about justice

  11 Sep 2014: Courtroom to classroom, society to sports, injustice will also heavily balance the scales in this week’s musical judgments, says Peter Kimpton
  

• 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

• Body upgrades may be nearing reality, but only for the rich

  5 Sep 2014:

  Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari says expensive human enhancements will lead to a society more unequal than ever

• 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

• Were we happier in the stone age?

  5 Sep 2014:

  Does modern life make us happy? We have gained much but we have lost a great deal too, argues Yuval Noah Harari. Are humans better suited to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle?

• 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

• Battleship beast: colossal dinosaur skeleton found in southern Patagonia

  4 Sep 2014: Dreadnoughtus schrani unearthed in Argentina is most complete skeleton of plant-eating titanosaur recovered anywhere in world

• Secrets of animal camouflage research

  29 Aug 2014: GrrlScientist: This interesting video, courtesy of the BBSRC and Project Nightjar, reveals the secrets of animal camouflage research.

• Eggcellent citizen science: evolution of camouflage in bird eggs

  27 Aug 2014: GrrlScientist: How an online video game relies on citizen scientists to test the evolution of avian egg camouflage colours and patterns.

• Weatherwatch: Tawny owls get tawnier

  24 Aug 2014: Jeremy Plester on a study showing how owls in Finland are evolving in response to rapid climate change

• Neanderthals walked among us – study

  21 Aug 2014: Species now thought to have held out alongside modern humans in Europe for thousands of years but extent of mixing is unclear

• Homo floresiensis: scientists clash over claims 'hobbit man' was modern human with Down's syndrome

  17 Aug 2014:

  Tiny skeleton from Indonesia's Flores island is unique ancient species, insist researchers

• True facts about anglerfish

  16 Aug 2014:

  GrrlScientist: To the female anglerfish, the human male is a very loud, annoying and unnecessarily complicated pair of gonads.

• Competition for ecological niches limits evolution of new species

  14 Aug 2014:

  GrrlScientist: A recently published study finds that competition for ecological niches limits the evolution of new species. Further, this study finds that speciation rate slows or even stops as available ecological niches fill up.

• Incredible journey: one wolf's migration across Europe

  8 Aug 2014: Slavc is a wolf. In 2011, he began an epic 2,000 kilometre migration across Europe from Slovenia to Italy via the Austrian Alps

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