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King Tutankhamun Died From a Broken Leg, Malaria

Posted: 02/17/10 9:51AM
Filed Under: Top News, Science & Tech, World, Amazing Discoveries, Ancient Finds

Egyptian boy-king King Tutankhamun died from a broken leg and complications from malaria, claims a new study. But will these findings put to rest decades of speculation over the boy king’s death?

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In this Nov. 4, 2007 file photo, an archaeological worker looks across at the face of the linen-wrapped mummy of King Tut as he is removed from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

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In this Nov. 4, 2007 file photo, an archaeological worker looks across at the face of the linen-wrapped mummy of King Tut as he is removed from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

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This file photo provided by the Supreme Council of Antiquities shows a CT scan done on Jan.5, 2005 of the skull of King Tutankhamun's mummy, in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

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In this photo taken on Nov. 4, 2007, the feet of King Tutankhamun are seen at the moving of the linen-wrapped mummy of King Tut from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

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This undated file photo shows Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered King Tutankhamun's tomb, examining King Tut's sarcophagus. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

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In this Nov. 4, 2007 file photo, Egypt's antiquities chief Dr. Zahi Hawass, center, supervises the removal of the mummy of King Tutankhamun from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

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In this Feb. 15, 2010 photo, women look at one of the coffins of King Tutankhamun at the Egyptian museum in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

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Artist impression' provided by Nature.com, this week showing an Inuk to illustrate a study published in Nature in which Danish scientists carried out a DNA analysis of a tuft of human hair that hasbeen buried in the Greenland permafrost for the last 4,000 years.The first genome sequence of an ancient human is reported in Nature this week. As well as demonstrating a substantial advance in DNA sequencing techniques, the work also highlights a previously unknown migration of humans around 5,500 years agoEske Willerslev and colleagues analysed hairs from a male in Greenland which had been preserved in permafrost for around 4,000 years. Using SNP analysis, they were able to propose certain characteristics of this individual – known as 'Inuk' – such as his skin colour and hair thickness. There are currently very few details known about these particular humans due to the fact that little remains from their culture; however, this work suggests that genomic data can now be used to identify physical traits of individuals from extinct cultures, even when there are only small amounts of material, such as bones, left.

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In this picture made available by Szczecin University's Department of Archaelogy on Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 one of three Neanderthal teeth discovered in Poland is pictured . A team of Polish scientists say they have discovered three Neanderthal teeth in a cave in the southern part of the country. Mikolaj Urbanowski, an archaeologist and the lead researcher, said Monday that, although Neanderthal artifacts have been unearthed in Poland before, the teeth are the first remains of Neanderthals themselves discovered in the country.

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3 Neanderthal Teeth Found, Scientists Say

Posted: 02/02/10 9:03AM
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WARSAW, Poland - A team of Polish scientists said Monday they have discovered three Neanderthal teeth in a cave, a find they hope may shed light on how similar to modern humans our ancestors were.

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In this picture made available by Szczecin University's Department of Archaelogy on Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 one of three Neanderthal teeth discovered in Poland is pictured . A team of Polish scientists say they have discovered three Neanderthal teeth in a cave in the southern part of the country. Mikolaj Urbanowski, an archaeologist and the lead researcher, said Monday that, although Neanderthal artifacts have been unearthed in Poland before, the teeth are the first remains of Neanderthals themselves discovered in the country.

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This undated photo released Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, by Egypt's supreme council of antiquities shows the ancient cat-goddess Bastet found amongst the temple's ruins in the Kom el-Dekkah area of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Egypt says its archaeologists have unearthed a Ptolemic temple dating back more than 2,000 years and which may have been dedicated to the ancient cat-goddess Bastet.

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An Israeli antiquities authority worker clears debris as an excavation reveals for the first time a house from the Jewish village of Nazareth on December 21, 2009 in Nazareth, Israel. The house was discovered in a dig carried out ahead of the construction of the International Marian Center of Nazareth by the Galilee city's Chemin Neuf community next to the Church of the Annunciation.

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Israel's Antiquities Authority workers are seen at the excavation site of the remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth, Israel that can be dated back to the time of Jesus, Monday,Dec. 21, 2009. Archaeologist Yardena Alexandre, unseen, of the Israel Antiquities Authority says remains of a wall, a hideout and a cistern were found after builders dug up an old convent courtyard in the northern Israeli city.

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The Church of the Annunciation seen alongside the excavation site of the remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth, Israel that can be dated back to the time of Jesus, Monday,Dec. 21, 2009. Archaeologist Yardena Alexandre of the Israel Antiquities Authority says remains of a wall, a hideout and a cistern were found after builders dug up an old convent courtyard in the northern Israeli city.

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A sunken red granite tower, part of a pylon of the Isis temple is extracted out of the Mediterranean Sea off the archaeological eastern harbor of Alexandria, Egypt Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. Egyptian archeologists have lifted a major artifact out of the Mediterranean Sea in an elaborate effort to highlight ancient treasures buried under water off the harbor in Alexandria. It is intended to be the centerpiece of a planned underwater museum Egypt hopes will draw tourists to its northern coast, often overshadowed by hotspots such as Luxor, the Giza pyramids and Red Sea beaches.

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This photo shows a finger from Galileo's right hand, removed in 1737 from the great Tuscan scientist's corpse as it was being transferred to the monumental tomb in the Basilica of Santa Croce. It was announced on November 20, 2009 that three exceptional Galilean relics, two other fingers and a tooth, deemed lost for over a century, have been found again by chance by a collector and will be displayed to the public for the first time in spring 2010 on the occasion of the reopening of the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze.

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In this image released by National Geographic, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno, enveloped by the jaws of SuperCroc, holds the fossil head of DogCroc. DogCroc, along with four other newly described crocs, lived in the Sahara when the 8-ton SuperCroc did, at a time when dinosaurs ruled.

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University of Chicago Professor Paul Sereno, left, and McGill University Associate Professor Hans Larsson excavate the fossil skull of a 100-million-year-old croc in Niger. The animal, which they nicknamed BoarCroc, was one of several crocs that inhabited a lost world now buried in the sands of the Sahara.

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Archeologists Unearth Temple of the Cat God

Posted: 01/19/10 2:07PM
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Archeologists in Egypt have unearthed a temple dedicated to the ancient Egyptian cat goddess Bastet.

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This undated photo released Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, by Egypt's supreme council of antiquities shows the ancient cat-goddess Bastet found amongst the temple's ruins in the Kom el-Dekkah area of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Egypt says its archaeologists have unearthed a Ptolemic temple dating back more than 2,000 years and which may have been dedicated to the ancient cat-goddess Bastet.

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This undated photo released Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, by Egypt's supreme council of antiquities shows the ancient cat-goddess Bastet found amongst the temple's ruins in the Kom el-Dekkah area of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Egypt says its archaeologists have unearthed a Ptolemic temple dating back more than 2,000 years and which may have been dedicated to the ancient cat-goddess Bastet.

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An Israeli antiquities authority worker clears debris as an excavation reveals for the first time a house from the Jewish village of Nazareth on December 21, 2009 in Nazareth, Israel. The house was discovered in a dig carried out ahead of the construction of the International Marian Center of Nazareth by the Galilee city's Chemin Neuf community next to the Church of the Annunciation.

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Israel's Antiquities Authority workers are seen at the excavation site of the remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth, Israel that can be dated back to the time of Jesus, Monday,Dec. 21, 2009. Archaeologist Yardena Alexandre, unseen, of the Israel Antiquities Authority says remains of a wall, a hideout and a cistern were found after builders dug up an old convent courtyard in the northern Israeli city.

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The Church of the Annunciation seen alongside the excavation site of the remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth, Israel that can be dated back to the time of Jesus, Monday,Dec. 21, 2009. Archaeologist Yardena Alexandre of the Israel Antiquities Authority says remains of a wall, a hideout and a cistern were found after builders dug up an old convent courtyard in the northern Israeli city.

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A sunken red granite tower, part of a pylon of the Isis temple is extracted out of the Mediterranean Sea off the archaeological eastern harbor of Alexandria, Egypt Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. Egyptian archeologists have lifted a major artifact out of the Mediterranean Sea in an elaborate effort to highlight ancient treasures buried under water off the harbor in Alexandria. It is intended to be the centerpiece of a planned underwater museum Egypt hopes will draw tourists to its northern coast, often overshadowed by hotspots such as Luxor, the Giza pyramids and Red Sea beaches.

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This photo shows a finger from Galileo's right hand, removed in 1737 from the great Tuscan scientist's corpse as it was being transferred to the monumental tomb in the Basilica of Santa Croce. It was announced on November 20, 2009 that three exceptional Galilean relics, two other fingers and a tooth, deemed lost for over a century, have been found again by chance by a collector and will be displayed to the public for the first time in spring 2010 on the occasion of the reopening of the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze.

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In this image released by National Geographic, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno, enveloped by the jaws of SuperCroc, holds the fossil head of DogCroc. DogCroc, along with four other newly described crocs, lived in the Sahara when the 8-ton SuperCroc did, at a time when dinosaurs ruled.

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University of Chicago Professor Paul Sereno, left, and McGill University Associate Professor Hans Larsson excavate the fossil skull of a 100-million-year-old croc in Niger. The animal, which they nicknamed BoarCroc, was one of several crocs that inhabited a lost world now buried in the sands of the Sahara.

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An image from NASA's LCROSS satellite shows the plume from the lunar impact of its ejected rocket, taken about 20 seconds after impact.

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Paleontologist Richard Forrest measures the jaw bone of a fossilized pliosaur found on the southern coast of England in Dorchester, England Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009. A local council says the fossilized skull of a giant sea monster has been found off the southern coast of England. The fossil came from a pliosaur, a ferocious predator that lived in the oceans 150 million years ago. The skull was discovered in Dorset by a collector and measures 2.4 meters (8 feet) in length. The discovery was announced Tuesday. Scientists believe the creature would have been some 16 meters (52 feet) long.

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Boy, 12, Charged With Murder

Posted: 12/30/09 9:18AM
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A 12-year-old boy has been charged with second-degree murder in connection to the death of a 14-year-old girl in northern Manitoba. Police said Marilyn Alicia Agnes Munroe died on Monday of a stab wound she suffered at a home in the community of Oxford House First Nation, located about 950 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg.

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First House From Jesus' Time Found in Nazareth

Posted: 12/21/09 3:00PM
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NAZARETH, Israel (AP) - Days before Christmas, archaeologists on Monday unveiled what they said were the remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth that can be dated back to the time of Jesus — a find that could shed new light on what the hamlet was like during the period the New Testament says Jesus lived there as a boy.

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An Israeli antiquities authority worker clears debris as an excavation reveals for the first time a house from the Jewish village of Nazareth on December 21, 2009 in Nazareth, Israel. The house was discovered in a dig carried out ahead of the construction of the International Marian Center of Nazareth by the Galilee city's Chemin Neuf community next to the Church of the Annunciation.

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A sunken red granite tower, part of a pylon of the Isis temple is extracted out of the Mediterranean Sea off the archaeological eastern harbor of Alexandria, Egypt Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. Egyptian archeologists have lifted a major artifact out of the Mediterranean Sea in an elaborate effort to highlight ancient treasures buried under water off the harbor in Alexandria. It is intended to be the centerpiece of a planned underwater museum Egypt hopes will draw tourists to its northern coast, often overshadowed by hotspots such as Luxor, the Giza pyramids and Red Sea beaches.

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This photo shows a finger from Galileo's right hand, removed in 1737 from the great Tuscan scientist's corpse as it was being transferred to the monumental tomb in the Basilica of Santa Croce. It was announced on November 20, 2009 that three exceptional Galilean relics, two other fingers and a tooth, deemed lost for over a century, have been found again by chance by a collector and will be displayed to the public for the first time in spring 2010 on the occasion of the reopening of the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze.

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In this image released by National Geographic, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno, enveloped by the jaws of SuperCroc, holds the fossil head of DogCroc. DogCroc, along with four other newly described crocs, lived in the Sahara when the 8-ton SuperCroc did, at a time when dinosaurs ruled.

AP Photo/National Geographic, Mike Hettwer

University of Chicago Professor Paul Sereno, left, and McGill University Associate Professor Hans Larsson excavate the fossil skull of a 100-million-year-old croc in Niger. The animal, which they nicknamed BoarCroc, was one of several crocs that inhabited a lost world now buried in the sands of the Sahara.

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An image from NASA's LCROSS satellite shows the plume from the lunar impact of its ejected rocket, taken about 20 seconds after impact.

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Paleontologist Richard Forrest measures the jaw bone of a fossilized pliosaur found on the southern coast of England in Dorchester, England Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009. A local council says the fossilized skull of a giant sea monster has been found off the southern coast of England. The fossil came from a pliosaur, a ferocious predator that lived in the oceans 150 million years ago. The skull was discovered in Dorset by a collector and measures 2.4 meters (8 feet) in length. The discovery was announced Tuesday. Scientists believe the creature would have been some 16 meters (52 feet) long.

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Paleontologist Richard Forrest measures the jaw bone of a fossilized pliosaur found on the southern coast of England in Dorchester, England Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009. A local council says the fossilized skull of a giant sea monster has been found off the southern coast of England. The fossil came from a pliosaur, a ferocious predator that lived in the oceans 150 million years ago. The skull was discovered in Dorset by a collector and measures 2.4 meters (8 feet) in length. The discovery was announced Tuesday. Scientists believe the creature would have been some 16 meters (52 feet) long.

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Researchers have discovered a new species of giant spider, the largest of its kind ever found. The saucer-sized arachnid, dubbed Nephila komaci, is similar to its slightly smaller cousin pictured here on its metre-wide web.

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Scientists have found a spider in Central America that eats mostly plants, the only known vegetarian in an estimated 40,000 spider species. Above a female Bagheera kiplingi spider eats a Beltian body harvested from an Acacia plant.

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Monument Lifted From Cleopatra's Underwater City

Posted: 12/17/09 9:21AM
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Egyptian archaeologists have lifted out of the Mediterranean Sea an ancient granite temple pylon from the palace complex of Cleopatra, submerged in the waters of Alexandria's harbor. Divers and underwater archaeologists used a giant crane and ropes to lift the 9-ton, 7.4-foot-tall pylon from the murky waters Thursday.

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A sunken red granite tower, part of a pylon of the Isis temple is extracted out of the Mediterranean Sea off the archaeological eastern harbor of Alexandria, Egypt Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. Egyptian archeologists have lifted a major artifact out of the Mediterranean Sea in an elaborate effort to highlight ancient treasures buried under water off the harbor in Alexandria. It is intended to be the centerpiece of a planned underwater museum Egypt hopes will draw tourists to its northern coast, often overshadowed by hotspots such as Luxor, the Giza pyramids and Red Sea beaches.

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A sunken red granite tower, part of a pylon of the Isis temple is extracted out of the Mediterranean Sea off the archaeological eastern harbor of Alexandria, Egypt Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. Egyptian archeologists have lifted a major artifact out of the Mediterranean Sea in an elaborate effort to highlight ancient treasures buried under water off the harbor in Alexandria. It is intended to be the centerpiece of a planned underwater museum Egypt hopes will draw tourists to its northern coast, often overshadowed by hotspots such as Luxor, the Giza pyramids and Red Sea beaches.

AP Photo/Nasser Nasser

This photo shows a finger from Galileo's right hand, removed in 1737 from the great Tuscan scientist's corpse as it was being transferred to the monumental tomb in the Basilica of Santa Croce. It was announced on November 20, 2009 that three exceptional Galilean relics, two other fingers and a tooth, deemed lost for over a century, have been found again by chance by a collector and will be displayed to the public for the first time in spring 2010 on the occasion of the reopening of the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze.

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In this image released by National Geographic, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno, enveloped by the jaws of SuperCroc, holds the fossil head of DogCroc. DogCroc, along with four other newly described crocs, lived in the Sahara when the 8-ton SuperCroc did, at a time when dinosaurs ruled.

AP Photo/National Geographic, Mike Hettwer

University of Chicago Professor Paul Sereno, left, and McGill University Associate Professor Hans Larsson excavate the fossil skull of a 100-million-year-old croc in Niger. The animal, which they nicknamed BoarCroc, was one of several crocs that inhabited a lost world now buried in the sands of the Sahara.

AP Photo/National Geographic, Mike Hettwer

An image from NASA's LCROSS satellite shows the plume from the lunar impact of its ejected rocket, taken about 20 seconds after impact.

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Paleontologist Richard Forrest measures the jaw bone of a fossilized pliosaur found on the southern coast of England in Dorchester, England Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009. A local council says the fossilized skull of a giant sea monster has been found off the southern coast of England. The fossil came from a pliosaur, a ferocious predator that lived in the oceans 150 million years ago. The skull was discovered in Dorset by a collector and measures 2.4 meters (8 feet) in length. The discovery was announced Tuesday. Scientists believe the creature would have been some 16 meters (52 feet) long.

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Paleontologist Richard Forrest measures the jaw bone of a fossilized pliosaur found on the southern coast of England in Dorchester, England Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009. A local council says the fossilized skull of a giant sea monster has been found off the southern coast of England. The fossil came from a pliosaur, a ferocious predator that lived in the oceans 150 million years ago. The skull was discovered in Dorset by a collector and measures 2.4 meters (8 feet) in length. The discovery was announced Tuesday. Scientists believe the creature would have been some 16 meters (52 feet) long.

AP Photo/Chris Ison/PA Wire

Researchers have discovered a new species of giant spider, the largest of its kind ever found. The saucer-sized arachnid, dubbed Nephila komaci, is similar to its slightly smaller cousin pictured here on its metre-wide web.

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Scientists have found a spider in Central America that eats mostly plants, the only known vegetarian in an estimated 40,000 spider species. Above a female Bagheera kiplingi spider eats a Beltian body harvested from an Acacia plant.

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What killed off the dinosaurs? Many scientists think it was the impact form a giant space rock. But where exactly did that impact occur?

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