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Metal detectorist on first trip finds iron-age treasure
A man who bought a metal detector because he wanted a hobby that got him out in the fresh air struck gold the first time he used it when he discovered an...
Ancient Anglo-Saxon gold on display in London
The British Museum is displaying a small selection of a gold hoard found last July in a Staffordshire field by an amateur with a metal detector.
Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100; French philosopher's ideas transformed anthropology
He was known as the father of modern anthropology because of his then-revolutionary conclusion that so-called primitive societies did not differ greatly intellectually from modern ones. Claude Levi-Strauss, the French philosopher widely considered...
How safe is your ejector seat?
A passenger in a fighter plane in South Africa last week accidentally activated the ejector seat but escaped unharmed. Was he just incredibly lucky?Of all the things that you hope you wouldn't be...
Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues on Climate Change
Deep under the sea, a fossil the size of a sand grain is nestled among a billion of its closest dead relatives. Known as foraminifera, these complex little shells of...
Details of newly discovered armoured dinosaur revealed
A husband and wife team of paleontologists from Buffalo, N.Y., have unveiled the results of their research into a previously unknown species of armoured dinosaur that lived 112 million years...
Bite Marks Show T. Rex Teens Fought Viciously
A fossil reveals that young T. rexes liked to roughhouse.
Malaria impasse 'could be overcome with brain scans'
MRI scans could transform scientists' understanding of cerebral malaria but the technology is barely used, say researchers
Britain's oldest dinosaur set to rise from its rocky tomb
Lottery funding will finally allow scientists to extract and study the 'Bristol Dinosaur', which roamed the Earth more than 210m years agoBritain's oldest dinosaur will at last be revealed, after being entombed in...
New Video Out in Search for Maddy McCann
Shows Computer-Generated Images of What She Might Look Like Today; British Tot Vanished Two Years Ago from Resort in Portugal
African desert rift confirmed as new ocean in the making
In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two...
The entwined destinies of mankind and leprosy bacteria
For thousands of years an undesirable and persistent companion has been travelling with man wherever he goes. Mycobacterium leprae, the bacterium that causes leprosy, has only one known natural host...
One of Tsavo's lions ate most human prey
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two man-eating lions terrorized Kenya during the building of a railroad bridge over the Tsavo River in the late 19th century, but only one was making regular...
Nasca People Of Ancient Peru: Forest Clearances Sealed Civilization's Downfall
An ancient South American civilisation which disappeared around 1,500 years ago helped to cause its own demise by damaging the fragile ecosystem that held it in place, a study has...
Charles Darwin Really Did Have Advanced Ideas About The Origin Of Life
When Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species 150 years ago, he deliberately avoided the subject of the origin of life. This, coupled with the mention of the 'Creator' in...
Study: T. rex teens fought, disfigured each other
Tyrannosaurus rex's reputation as a fierce, battle-hungry carnivore can now also apply to teenagers of this Late Cretaceous dinosaur, according to a new study.
Native American culture sowed seeds of its own collapse
Floods brought the Nazca to their knees — but they crippled themselves by over-farming first.
Research study on the European mink, Mustela lutreola
The European mink, Mustela lutreola, is a species catalogued as in danger of extinction, due to the large decline in their population over the past century. It is considered to...
New clues to the Falklands wolf mystery
Ever since the Falklands wolf was described by Darwin himself, the origin of this now-extinct canid found only on the Falkland Islands far off the east coast of Argentina has...
The terrible teens of T. rex
We all know adolescents get testy from time to time. Thank goodness we don't have young tyrannosaurs running around the neighborhood.
Human Evolution: Where We Came From
A chronology of hominids tells the story of some of the most significant ancestors we know about and how they're all linked by evolution.
The search -- computers dig deeper for meaning (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Search engine technology is in a state of flux as it digs ever deeper for new meaning. Europe is poised to reap the benefits of the new age...
Fishing Boat Sunk by Giant Jellyfish
A Japanese trawler capsized when its 3-man crew apparently tried to haul up a net that was too heavy.
The 85 Tools Of The World's Largest Swiss Army Knife
Have you ever been stranded in the deep Congo? Hung from a finger on the 27th pitch of the Nose on El Cap? Been jumped from behind by muggers in the Bronx?...
'Dutch' Batavians More Roman Than Thought
The Batavians, who lived in the Netherlands at the start of the Christian era were far more Roman than was previously thought. After just a few decades of Roman occupation, the Batavians...
Are US And European Plovers Really Birds Of A Feather?
The Kentish-Snowy Plover, a small shorebird found in the US and Europe, is 'suffering' from an identity crisis after scientists found genetic evidence that the populations are, in fact, separate...
Snail Fossils Suggest Semiarid Eastern Canary Islands Were Wetter 50,000 Years Ago
Isotopic measurements performed on fossil land snail shells found in ancient soils on the subtropical eastern Canary Islands resulted in oxygen isotope ratios that suggest the Spanish archipelago off the...
Peru's Nazca culture was brought down with its trees
Deforestation left nothing to hinder ancient floodwaters on the desert plain, researchers find. Modern Peru could learn from the civilization's collapse, they say. ...