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Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had four eyes
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First treaty to protect the high seas comes into force
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Why does the United States want to buy Greenland?
The ice-covered island may be strategically important, but it’s unclear that it could be a commercially viable source of minerals
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Fossil analysis adds to debate over how earliest known hominin walked
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