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Palaeontologists have unearthed the skeleton of a meat-eating dinosaur dating back over 76 million years.
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A prehistoric species of bird that preened itself like a flamingo has been discovered in Germany.
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The Chinese space agency's Tiangong 1 space laboratory will hit the ground within the next few months.
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Dating back over 1,000 years, the tomb is thought to be that of King Te' Chan Ahk of the Wak dynasty.
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Scientists have made a discovery that could push back the emergence of life further than ever before.
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Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a 4,000-year-old tomb containing a jar of headless toads.
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Rumors of another apocalyptic collision with the mythical planet Nibiru have been circulating the Internet.
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A recent archaeological dig near Guernsey has yielded something rather unexpected - a porpoise skeleton.
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The crew of six NASA astronauts has been living in a dome near one of Hawaii's largest volcanoes.
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Astronomers have identified nine planets from which intelligent aliens could potentially be watching us.
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Researchers in the US have come up with a revised classification system to help categorize our planet.
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Two extremely powerful solar flares erupted from a large sunspot on the Sun's surface yesterday.
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Known as Florence, the 2.7-mile asteroid is the largest near-Earth object ever recorded by NASA.
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NASA's Peggy Whitson broke a slew of records during her latest 288-day mission aboard the ISS.
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The final resting place of legendary Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu has been unearthed in Fuzhou.
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The huge space rock is due to pass within a safe distance of our planet at the beginning of September.
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A sea algae boom has been credited with the rise of the first complex life forms in Earth's distant past.
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The asteroid known as 2012 TC4 is set to pass us by at a safe distance of 27,300 miles in October.
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Palaeontologists have discovered the skull of what is thought to be mankind's earliest known ancestor.
A 70-ton titanosaur has been officially established as the largest land animal ever to walk the Earth.