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The remains of an extinct species of ape have been found inside a 2,300-year-old burial chamber.
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The fearless mammal managed to climb up the vertical outer wall of the 25-storey UBS Tower in St Paul.
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Tapes containing data recorded on the Moon back in the 1970s have helped to solve a long-running mystery.
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Scientists have identified a previously unknown species of primate that lived around 400,000 years ago.
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Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot Atlas is now able to run and jump outside without being tethered to anything.
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Scientists have been looking to the past to help them determine the whereabouts of the elusive ninth planet.
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Stephen Wiltshire, who was diagnosed with autism at the age of three, is one of the world's most skilled artists.
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This remarkable dome of churning molten magma was photographed in Hawaii by the US Geological Survey.
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A new paper has put forward the suggestion that the clouds of Venus could be a habitat for microbial life.
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A swimming club in Australia has appealed for ships to keep a look out for its recently escaped mascot.
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The mystery of what happened to the three men who escaped Alcatraz in 1962 may have finally been solved.
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The 'Tolkienesque' landscape is made up of 26 underwater volcanoes buried beneath seabed sediment.
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Archaeologists have found the answer to one of the Queen Anne's Revenge's most enduring mysteries.
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The state-of-the-art MQ-25 drone has been designed to provide the US Navy with refueling capabilities.
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The disconcertingly-shaped space rock was last seen hurtling past our planet back in October 2015.
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One viewer of August's total solar eclipse ended up with eye damage in the exact shape of the Sun.
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Scientists studying apes in northern Sumatra have identified a small population of an entirely new species.
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A British newspaper received a strange phone call a mere 25 minutes before Kennedy's assassination.
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Diver John Craig had been spear fishing off the coast of Western Australia when the incident occurred.
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Zeb Hallock managed to record the star-shaped echinoderm ambling along a beach in North Carolina.