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Umaltolepis mongoliensis
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Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba A discovery of well-preserved fossil plants by paleontologists from the United States, China, Japan, Russia and Mongolia has allowed researchers to identify a distant relative of the living plant Ginkgo biloba. The find helps scientists b...
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Denisovans
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Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us Scientists say an entirely separate type of human identified from bones in Siberia co-existed and interbred with our own species. The ancient humans have been dubbed "Denisovans" after the caves in Siberia where their remains w...
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The complete works of one of history's greatest scientists, Charles Darwin, are being published online.
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The site currently contains more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publicatio...
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South Orkney Islands
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Signy Island is hottest place in the Antarctic A World Meteorological Organization (WMO) committee of experts announces this week (Wed 1 March) new records for the highest temperatures recorded in the Antarctic Region. The results are part of continuing efforts to expand a database of extreme we...
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Ocean Geology research vessels
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Two scientific vessels launched in sea trials Two new vessels for scientific investigation, built from the keel up by China, were launched in Shanghai on Tuesday for sea trials. Construction of Ocean Geology VIII and Ocean Geology IX was started by Shanghai Shipyard Co in October 2015, and the vess...
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Cephalopod
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Broody octopus keeps record-breaking four-year vigil For four years and five months, she clung to the rock and guarded her eggs. In a feat that surely made good use of all eight arms, an octopus revealed a new secret of deep sea life when ecologists observed her record-breaking behaviour from a robot...
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Giant penguins
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Giant penguins roamed what is now Peru more than 40 million years ago, much earlier than scientists thought the flightless birds had spread to warmer climes. Best known for their formal attire and presence in Antarctica, penguins today live in many islands in the Southern Hemisphere, some even nea...
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Genghis Khan
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Genghis Khan is making a comeback in Mongolia. His name is on streets, schools, a brand of vodka and many a newborn baby -- a sea change from the era when the Communists, who ruled the country until 1991, made even mentioning his name taboo since it was considered the epitome of imperialism. But with the...
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SS Mendi
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It was a small gesture towards righting a 90-year-old wrong: to the sound of a South African naval band, a wreath was yesterday cast into the waters off the Isle of Wight on the south coast of England, which swallowed more than 600 young African lives in the small hours of February 21, 1917. The SS Mendi,...
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Research ship Polarstern
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Research ship Polarstern returns from Antarctica - investigations of changes in Weddell Sea habitat The research vessel Polarstern of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association will arrive back at its homeport of Bremerhaven after a seven-month exp...
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Halley VI
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Neolithic Figurine
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Archaeologists have unearthed the largest Neolithic female figurine ever found in Italy, according to a press report .
The 7,000-year-old stone statuette, discovered during excavations of a burial site near the northern Italian city of Parma, is over 20 centimetres tall.
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Qumran
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Following directions found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, archaeologists have discovered the latrines used by the sect that produced the scrolls, discovering that efforts to achieve ritual purity inadvertently exposed members to intestinal parasites that shortened their lifespan.
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Thwaites Glacier
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CryoSat reveals lake outbursts beneath Antarctic ice A novel way of using ESA's CryoSat mission has revealed how lakes beneath Thwaites Glacier drained into the Amundsen Sea - potentially the largest such outflow ever reported in this region of West Antarctica. This new information is helping sc...
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