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Bubbling up after 2.7 billion years

Ancient pocket of water has a similar composition of dissolved chemicals to water found flowing from rock in a South African mine.

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The caring side of dinosaur dads

Some carnivorous species had such a caring side they worked with the females to look after their clutch of eggs, research reveals.

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Creepy-crawly named after Depp

The science world has paid homage to Johnny Depp by giving his name to an extinct creepy-crawly with “scissor hand-like” claws.

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The scientists plan to analyse it for signs of life, which could help to develop techniques for finding extra-terrestrial life living within underground pockets of water on either Mars (pictured) or Europa.

Bubbling up after 2.7 billion years
May 19 2013 at 09:00

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Scientists found that shared parental duties were handed down from small meat-eating theropod dinosaurs such as troodon (pictured) and oviraptor to modern birds, to which they are distantly related.

The caring side of dinosaur dads
May 17 2013 at 18:00

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Kooteninchela deppi, a 505-million-year-old distant ancestor of lobsters and scorpions, has been named for Depp's famous portrayal of a gentle freak named Edward Scissorhands in the 1990 eponymous film.

Creepy-crawly named after Depp
May 17 2013 at 08:57

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'At times it can be a bit like reading Shades of Grey. The fact that my father was married and had to get a divorce makes it so exciting.'

The saucy love letters of wartime sweethearts
May 16 2013 at 09:12

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Tourist companies in Belize offer everything from cave tubing to animal tracking, bird watching and the exploration of Mayan ruins.

End of the road for ancient Mayan temple
May 15 2013 at 09:30

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The Berlin State Library owns the largest collection of oriental manuscripts and blockprints in Germany: about 42 000 items in all.

Mammoth project to archive manuscripts
May 14 2013 at 09:19

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People looking at the glass memorial by Michal Ullman for the Nazi book burning held on May 10, 1933 on the Bebelplatz square in front of the Humboldt University.

Was this the prelude to Holocaust?
May 10 2013 at 15:30

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File photo: The iron and magnesium-rich rock is the most common host for naturally occurring diamonds  and South African diamonds are obtained from a mica-rich form of peridotite, called kimberlite.

SA jeweller to display rare rock
May 10 2013 at 08:56

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File photo: A Kenyan scientist holds a fossil at the Kenya National Museum. Researchers discovered a 10-million-year-old jaw bone in Kenya they believe belonged to a new species of a great ape that could be the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans.

Are we descended from ‘aquatic apes’?
May 9 2013 at 09:27

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Mongolia's Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism Oyungerel Tsedevdamba, left, and ICE Director John Morton, hold the signed certificate of repatriation to return a Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton to Mongolia, in New York.

US returns looted T-Rex skeleton to Mongolia
May 9 2013 at 09:25

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