Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Researchers have observed killer whales teaming up with dolphins to hunt salmon and sharing the spoils for the first time, raisingContinue Reading
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Archaeologists have made a discovery that could challenge everything we know about human development. Footage shows scientists examining an excavation site of a 400,000-year-old pond sediment in Barnham, Suffolk, where they say they found the remains of a campfire. Previously, the earliest evidence of prehistoric humans making fire had beenContinue Reading
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