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Palaentologists have unearthed a cousin of Triceratops with a spectacular crown-like frill on its head.
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The Earth appears to be surrounded by giant, invisible tubes of plasma that fill the sky above our heads.
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Anthropologists have unearthed the fossil remains of a human ancestor dating back 3.2 million years.
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The claim that a massive earthquake will hit California later on today has turned out to be nonsense.
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Prehistoric stone tools predating the human genus have been unearthed in a dried-up riverbed in Kenya.
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Media reports of a close shave with a mile-wide asteroid have thankfully turned out to be exaggerated.
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The subsurface ocean on Saturn's moon is very similar to life-bearing salt lakes on our own planet.
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A previously undiscovered stone circle has been unearthed by archaeologists in southern England.
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Italian geologist Luigi Piccardi believes that legends of lake monsters may have a geological origin.
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The events of the hit movie could become a reality thanks to the large amounts of junk in Earth's orbit.
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Cosmic radiation could be the single biggest problem for future astronauts embarking on a trip to Mars.
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A sparrow-sized flying dinosaur with wings resembling those of a bat has been unearthed by scientists.
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Fossil remains of a turkey-sized relative to the meat-eating behemoth were found by a 7-year-old boy.
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Several dozen fossilized eggs were discovered by builders carrying out repairs at the side of a road.
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Reports from across Norway have described peculiar deluges of worms cascading from the heavens.
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A new study has investigated what causes the planet to inexplicably vibrate at very low frequencies.
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An extinction event known as the 'Great Dying' wiped out most of the life on Earth 251 million years ago.
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Palaeontologists have successfully unearthed the most complete skeleton of a terror bird ever found.
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Several new studies appear to support the idea that the moon formed after a collision between two worlds.
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Could an alien civilization build a large spherical energy-harvesting structure around a distant star ?