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The Apollo 11 astronaut fell ill just after becoming the oldest person ever to visit the South Pole.
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An eagle-eyed Internet user has spotted some peculiar pyramid-shaped structures on Google Earth.
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Palaeontologists have unearthed the fossil remains of a gigantic Cretaceous-era ocean predator.
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A diver believes that he may have discovered a missing nuclear weapon at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.
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Russian scientists have located a secret Nazi facility that was abandoned before the end of World War II.
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A secret US facility hidden beneath the ice is believed to contain significant amounts of nuclear waste.
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The mystery of a missing British explorer ship which disappeared in the Arctic in 1845 has been solved.
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The previously unidentified species would have thrived in sub-arctic marine waters 25 million years ago.
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A large hole in the Earth's protective ozone layer is finally starting to show signs of healing up.
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The pristine white of the Arctic landscape seems to have been turning a rather unusual shade of pink.
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A sick worker has had to be rescued from a remote research station in Antarctica in the middle of winter.
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A huge flightless bird called Gastornis is thought to have once roamed what is now the Arctic Circle.
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Scientists have discovered that some species of sea spider have been growing to abnormally large sizes.
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A new NASA study has called in to question what we know of global warming and rising sea levels.
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A large land mass was thought to have twice spanned today's Arctic region millions of years ago.
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A secretive set of photographs has emerged showing two unidentified objects near a US Navy submarine.
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A UFO researcher in Russia has found what he believes to be a UFO in Antarctica using Google Earth.
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Arctic lamprey eels measuring several feet in length have been observed plummeting from the heavens.
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A snapshot of the past has been found in the form of a bubble frozen in the Antarctic ice.
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A unique ecosystem discovered 1,000ft underground may increase the odds of finding life on other worlds.