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A photograph pulled from the National Archives appears to show Earhart at a dock on the Marshall Islands.
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The forensic animals will be used to help sniff out the aviator's final resting place on Nikumaroro.
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Two brand new species of small tree-dwelling primate have been discovered on the island of Sulawesi.
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Researchers in France have determined why entire islands have been vanishing from the surface of Titan.
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A new facility for archiving some of the world's most important documents has opened in the Arctic.
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North Island's Whanganui River has been granted the same legal rights and privileges as a human being.
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Scientists have found strong evidence of an ancient continent hidden deep beneath the Indian Ocean.
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The bones of a castaway found on a Pacific island in the 1940s could be those of the famed aviator.
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Forget haggis - Neolithic Scots living on the islands may have once had an appetite for the humble vole.
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Remember that time a giant octopus dragged a ferry to its doom off Staten Island ? No, neither do we.
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A new study has suggested that the inhabitants of Easter Island were not destroyed by warfare.
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A man and his three kids were left shocked after a swing started moving erratically all on its own.
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The origins of a granite marker on an island in Massachusetts have remained a mystery for years.
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Underwater ruins off the Greek island of Zakynthos have turned out to be a geological phenomenon.
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A chaotic pattern of scour marks in the Tyuleniy Archipelago has been photographed by a NASA satellite.
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A massive reticulated python thought to weigh in excess of 250kg has been captured on Penang island.
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A previously undiscovered species of monitor lizard has been found on the Pacific island of Mussau.
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A remarkable new find has suggested that the Romans may have visited North America 2,000 years ago.
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Hundreds of dinosaur footprints have been found preserved in rocks along the coast of a Scottish island.
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A British tourist managed to capture the image of an unidentified sea creature while on holiday in Corfu.