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This image released by the University of Toronto shows a preserved femora, thigh bone, in cross section in middle of the shaft

Dino bones shed light on development

Recently discovered dinosaur embryos are giving scientists their best glimpse yet into how the ancient creatures developed.

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Scientists have discovered large pockmarks near Christchurch (file)

Giant pockmarks found off NZ coast

Scientists have discovered what may be the world's biggest pockmarks on the seafloor 500km east of Christchurch.

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The gun weighs in at 13- tonnes

PHOTOS: Huge gun unearthed in Wellington video

A massive vanishing gun from one of New Zealand's earliest modern defence forts has been excavated in Wellington.

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The announcement was welcomed by other researchers

High quality Neanderthal gene sequenced

Researchers in Germany said Tuesday they have completed the first high-quality sequencing of a Neanderthal genome.

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Survivors of the Titanic have said they remember the band, led by Wallace Hartley, playing on deck

Auction house: We found Titanic violin video

The violin played by the bandmaster of the Titanic as the oceanliner sank has been unearthed, a British auction house said Friday.

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It is hoped the find will help experts understand similar threats to society today

Black Death skeletons found video

Workers on a major rail project in London have unearthed bodies that are believed to date back to the days of the plague.

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It's the second historic find beneath a British carpark this year (Reuters file)

Medieval knight found under carpark

Archaeologists in the UK have made another medieval discovery beneath a car park.

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The coin is made of copper and silver and has a square hole in the centre

600yo Chinese coin found in Kenya

Scientists from Illinois have found a rare, 600-year-old Chinese coin on the Kenyan island of Manda.

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This photo taken in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands, dated June 2012 and released on Friday March 8, 2013 by scientist Guy Ropars shows the Alderney Crystal, a piece of calcite (AAP)

Find may be fabled sunstone

A rough, whitish block recovered from an Elizabethan shipwreck may be a sunstone.

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