In Florida, Mystery Surrounds 8 Skeletons
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MIAMI -- For almost six months, Fort Myers police have puzzled over the eight skeletons discovered in the spring in a forested wetland.
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The 1.77-million-year-old remains of three adults and a teenager unearthed in the Caucasus point to a far greater variation in early humans than once suspected, according to a study released Wednesday.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The state has issued 19 subpoenas as part of an investigation into the botulism poisoning case in South Florida.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press  Scientists discover exotic creatures more mysterious than most can imagine.   WASHINGTON -- Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined.
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WASHINGTON - A newly discovered fossil may be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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By Michael Grabell, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 9--Police and religious experts say that a pot containing a human skull, found near the bodies of a missing couple last week, appears to be a shrine of the Afro-Caribbean religion Palo Mayombe.
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Human bones and other remains were unearthed Friday at sites where a former concrete worker told authorities he buried four of eight women he had killed, prosecutors said.
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A newly discovered fossil may be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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Archaeologists surveying a property earmarked for a Long Island housing development discovered an ancient skull.
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BARRANQUILLA, Colombia -- In a cramped, hospital-white laboratory in this coastal Caribbean city, 200 neatly numbered boxes of human remains lie stacked to the ceiling, waiting for a lone forensic anthropologist to extract the secrets of their violent deaths.
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Â· Remains are believed to be those of tsar's children Â· Discovery in clearing is linked to 1918 shootings
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The forensic science of processing and identifying the dead
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There are intriguing new clues in the mystery of how the woolly mammoth met its demise in North America more than 10,000 years ago.
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A team of scientists says it has found evidence in three wrist bones that an extinct group of people were members of a distinct species.
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A 16-year-old high school student stumbled upon what archaeologists say could be the biggest fossil find in Pinellas County in nearly a century. A shiny black rock caught Sierra Sarti-Sweeney's eye as she was taking pictures last month in Boca Ciega Millennium Park.
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By Sandy Bauers, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Jun. 21--As soon as he viewed the photo -- those fanglike teeth, like something out of a horror movie -- John Lundberg knew what the mystery creature was.
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Good news for dinosaur fans: There are probably a lot more of them waiting to be discovered.