Our human ancestors were almost wiped out about 930,000 years ago, leaving just a tiny group of reproductive individuals, new study suggests

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View of a skull of an adult Homo heidelbergensis found in Spain in 1992 sits on display at the Museum of Human Evolution in 2010.
View of a skull of an adult Homo heidelbergensis found in Spain in 1992 sits on display at the Museum of Human Evolution in 2010.

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An 8.7 million-year-old ape skull suggests that human and ape ancestors may have evolved in Europe, not Africa

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Conceptual X-ray image of human evolution.

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A mysterious Arctic shark that can live for 500 years got lost and ended up swimming in the balmy waters of the Caribbean, scientists say

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A Greenland shark picture taken at the floe edge of the Admiralty Inlet, Nunavut, 2007.

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If you're an American eating beef this weekend, there's a good chance you're a man or age 50 to 65

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Americans most likely to eat beef were men or people aged 50 to 65, a study found.

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Whales swimming behind fishing vessels catch an easy feast of escaped fish, but experts warn this 'free meal' is risky, potentially lethal behavior

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Whales follow behind the fishing vessel to catch fish that have escaped the fishermen's nets.

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Shipwreck hunters found a schooner that sank in 1881 intact in Lake Michigan

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Shipwreck hunters found the intact remains of a schooner that sank in 1881 in Lake Michigan, they said Thursday.

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Russia dominated the first space race, but now it can't even land on the moon. Photos show the US and China are way ahead.

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NASA's Space Launch System (left) is its new moon rocket. China's Yutu 2 rover (middle) explores the far side of the moon. Russia's Luna-25 lander just crashed (right).

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India launches spacecraft to study the sun a week after landing on the moon

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to recreate India's IT boom with space, a government official told

The early ancestors of humans were reduced to 1,300 individuals and came close to extinction, scientists say

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This evolutionary bottleneck might have led to the emergence of a new species, Homo heidelbergensis,

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Photos show 6,000 octopuses in one spot. It's the largest known gathering ever found and a mystery that scientists only just solved.

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A time-lapse camera developed by MBARI engineers allowed MBARI researchers and collaborators to monitor nesting octopus at the Octopus Garden for more than six months.
A time-lapse camera developed by MBARI engineers allowed them to monitor nesting octopus at the Octopus Garden for more than six months.

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