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  Definitive Evidence Found Of A Swimming Dinosaur

  May 24, 2007 — An extraordinary underwater trackway with 12 consecutive prints provides the most compelling evidence to-date that some dinosaurs were swimmers. The 15-meter-long trackway, located in La Virgen del ... > full story
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  Recovering Artifacts From 200-Year-Old Shipwreck, Deep In Gulf Of Mexico

  May 23, 2007 — Reseachers will soon be recovering artifacts from a 200-year-old shipwreck that lies more than 4,000 feet beneath the Gulf of Mexico, making it the deepest such recovery effort ever attempted in the ... > full story
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  Deep-Sea Mining May Pose Serious Threat To Fragile Marine Ecosystems, According To Study

  May 17, 2007 — A study finds undersea habitats supporting rare and potentially valuable organisms are at risk from seafloor mining scheduled to begin within this decade. Mining of massive sulphide deposits near ... > full story
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  Ancient Wooden Anchor Discovered

  May 16, 2007 — The world's oldest wooden anchor was discovered during excavations in the Turkish port city of Urla, the ancient site of Liman Tepe, the Greek 1st Millennium BCE colony of Klazomenai. The anchor, ... > full story
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  Walk Like An Egyptian -- Or A Roman: Experience What The Past Really Looked Like

  May 15, 2007 — Computer scientists and cultural heritage researchers are assessing whether today's increasingly sophisticated 3-D computer technology can be combined with the most recent historical evidence to ... > full story
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  NASA Mission Explores World's Deepest Sinkhole

  May 14, 2007 — A NASA-funded expedition, including researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, will begin searching for the submerged bottom of Mexico's El Zacatón sinkhole with a ... > full story
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  Egyptians, Not Greeks Were True Fathers Of Medicine

  May 9, 2007 — Scientists examining documents dating back 3,500 years say they have found proof that the origins of modern medicine lie in ancient Egypt and not with Hippocrates and the ... > full story
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  Tomb Of King Herod Discovered At Herodium

  May 8, 2007 — The long search for Herod the Great's tomb has ended with the exposure of the remains of his grave, sarcophagus and mausoleum on Mount Herodium's northeastern slope. Spread among the ruins are pieces ... > full story
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  Pig Study Forces Rethink Of Pacific Colonisation

  March 12, 2007 — A survey of wild and domestic pigs, published in PNAS, has caused archaeologists to reconsider both the origins of the first Pacific colonists and the migration routes humans travelled to reach the ... > full story
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  Prototype Space Probe Prepares To Explore Earth's Deepest Sinkhole

  March 8, 2007 — Scientists return this week to the world's deepest known sinkhole for tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX, designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth's most extreme regions and ... > full story

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