Creation museum selling mastodon skull
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A Texas museum that teaches creationism is counting on the auction of a prehistoric mastodon skull to stave off extinction. The founder and curator of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, which rejects evolution and claims that man and dinosaurs coexisted, said it will close unless the Volkswagen-sized skull finds a generous bidder.
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An exceptionally well-preserved 65  million year-old fossilized dinosaur nest with some broken eggs  exposing tiny skeletons is up for auction in Los Angeles on  Sunday.
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A 30-pound chunk sliced off one of the most famous meteorites in the world, the Willamette meteorite, will be auctioned on Oct. 28.
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A diamond-encrusted platinum skull by artist Damien Hirst has been sold to an investment group for the asking price of $100 million, a spokeswoman for Hirst's London gallery White Cube said on Thursday.
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While nosing around the Quaternary mammal collection at the Provincial Museum of Alberta two years ago, Paul Matheus, a paleontologist with the Alaska Quaternary Center, came across a brown bear fossil that seemed out of place.
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December 21, 2004 - A new X-ray machine will help anthropologists solve mysteries locked inside some of the Field Museum&#39;s ancient collection of fossils, mummies and pottery.
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A rare 11th century rock crystal ewer,  misidentified as a 19th Century French claret jug, has sold for  220,000 pounds ($428,800) at auction, more than one thousand  times its pre-sale estimate, the Art Newspaper said on Monday.
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Compared with the $27 million (13.6 million pounds) Creation Museum that just opened its doors in Kentucky, Canada&#39;s first museum dedicated to explaining geology, evolution and paleontology in biblical terms is a decidedly more modest affair.
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An almost complete human skull fossil that could date back 100,000 years has been unearthed in China, state media said on Wednesday, hailing it as the greatest discovery since Peking Man.
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A diamond-encrusted platinum skull by artist Damien Hirst has been sold to an investment group for the asking price of $100 million (50 million pounds), a spokeswoman for Hirst&#39;s London gallery White Cube said on Thursday.
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LONDON - A 1,000-year-old stone carving, which has spent years marking the grave of a British couple&#39;s pet cat, has sold for more than $470,000.
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JERUSALEM: A forgery ring that spanned the globe and produced a treasure trove of fake Bible-era artefacts was cracked yesterday. Police said the ring forged what were presented as perhaps the
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THE DISCOVERY: A University of Pittsburgh geology student on a field trip stumbles across the fossil of an oversized, salamander-like creature that lived about 300 million years ago.
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An extremely rare and well-preserved dinosaur nest containing fossil eggs with the embryos exposed goes up for auction this weekend, but at least one scientist is demanding the artifact be returned to a museum.
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Everything about the bones that turned up in a Grain Valley back yard last summer suggested to scientists that they came from a 50,000-year-old mastodon. But evidence yielded by additional digging has led the experts to conclude they were off-base. The remains are actually those of a mammoth that lived 500,000 to 1 million years ago, according to the scientists.
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"Charging Bull," one of New York's most recognized statues that once made a brief debut outside the Stock Exchange, is for sale.
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A TEN-YEAR-OLD grilled cheese sandwich a Florida woman says bears the image of the Virgin Mary was back on eBay today after the internet auction house initially cancelled bids that went up to $US22,000 ($28,472).