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Researcher says text proves Shroud of Turin real

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(AP) -- A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth. The claim made in a new book by historian Barbara ...

BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCroc

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Nov 19, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (7) | 2

A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck's bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno. ...

'Hobbits' are a new human species -- according to the statistical analysis of fossils

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Nov 19, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (10) | 0

Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using ...

Submersibles discover top-secret Japanese submarines

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Nov 13, 2009 | 3.2 / 5 (6) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two World War II Japanese submarines, designed with revolutionary technology to attack the U.S. mainland, have been discovered off the Hawaiian coast of Oʻahu. They are the I-14, which ...

Scientists: New dinosaur species found in SAfrica

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Nov 11, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 0

(AP) -- Scientists say they've discovered a new dinosaur species in South Africa that may help explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land.

Israel displays coins from ancient Jewish revolt

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Nov 11, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (4) | 0

(AP) -- Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago.

New fossil plant discovery links Patagonia to New Guinea in a warmer past

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Nov 10, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Fossil plants are windows to the past, providing us with clues as to what our planet looked like millions of years ago. Not only do fossils tell us which species were present before human-recorded history, ...

Excavation unravels mysteries of men's gymnasium's demise during 1906 earthquake

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Nov 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

More than a year into an excavation project of the men's gymnasium that was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, Stanford university archaeologist Laura Jones' team has unearthed evidence suggesting why the newly ...

Remains of Minoan-style painting discovered during excavations of Canaanite palace

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Nov 09, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (6) | 0

The remains of a Minoan-style wall painting, recognizable by a blue background, the first of its kind to be found in Israel, was discovered in the course of the recent excavation season at Tel Kabri. This fresco joins others ...

Dinosaur prints found on NZealand's South Island

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Nov 07, 2009 | 4 / 5 (7) | 0

Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations.

Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil

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Nov 05, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (10) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have extracted organically preserved muscle tissue from an 18 million years old salamander fossil. The discovery by researchers from University College Dublin, the UK and Spain, ...

Team tracks infamous conquistador through southeast

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Nov 05, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path ...

The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula

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Nov 05, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Spanish researchers have studied the fossil record of hadrosaurs, the so-called 'duck-billed' dinosaurs, in the Iberian Peninsula for the purpose of determining that they were the last of their kind to inhabit ...

Archaeologists uncover prehistoric landscape beneath Oxford

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Nov 04, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists excavating the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford have uncovered evidence of a prehistoric monumental landscape stretching across the gravel terrace between the Thames ...

T.rex's oldest ancestor identified

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Nov 04, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of the oldest-known relative of T.rex have been identified, more than 100 years after being pulled out of a Gloucestershire reservoir, according to research published in the Zoological Jo ...

Discovery of the oldest European marsupial

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Nov 04, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of one of the oldest known marsupials have been recovered in Charente-Maritime by a palaeontologist team from the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (CNRS, France) and the ...

Portable 3-D laser technology preserves Texas dinosaur's rare footprint

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Using portable 3D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint that was previously excavated and built into the wall of a bandstand at a Texas courthouse ...

Britain's oldest dinosaur to be released

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Nov 03, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- After 210 million years of being entombed in rock, the Bristol Dinosaur is about to be released, thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant awarded to the University of Bristol.