Mysteries of newly found âhobbitâ lure tourists to remote ...
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LIANG BUA, IndonesiaâThe discovery of remains of a tiny human closely related to man on the remote Indonesian island of Flores and tales of hobbit-like creatures
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Tools from Google Earth and Amazon.com are being applied by users to help in the effort to find missing aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett.
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"Hic sunt dracones," warned the black "X" on many an ancient mariner's map, marking spots in the unknown depths where dragons or serpents were thought to lurk. Since Plato's long-ago tale of the sunken island of Atlantis, humans have wondered whether lost worlds, teeming with life, might lie hidden in the ocean deeps.
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How sharing your family vacation photos online can help others discover a place through your travels.
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Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest mountain with some intriguing mysteries that are just now being solved after more than 100 years of scientific study.
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The hunt for missing aviator Steve Fossett in the rugged terrain of western Nevada could solve some much older mysteries. Searchers have turned up half a dozen previously undiscovered plane crash sites, and they believe there may be as many as 200 such sites around the Sierra Nevada range.
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ADDIS ABABA - Two groups of tourists, including at least seven French nationals and five Britons, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where ...Comment
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Scientists, wringing their hands over the identity of the famed "hobbit" fossil, have found a new clue in the wrist.
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Headless bodies buried 3,000 years ago in the oldest cemetery in the Pacific could reveal much about the earliest settlers of Vanuatu, Fiji and Polynesia, Australian archeologists said on Friday.
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The rover Opportunity will soon go over the edge into Victoria Crater in search of new hints about Marsâs ancient, and possibly wet, past.
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Scientists from the University of Granada, deep in southern Spain, announced this weekend that they will head to the Dominican Republic next month to analyse human remains in Santo Domingo believed to be those ...
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The species found in the mountains of Indonesia may be new to science, but not to Sherlock Holmes.
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Fans of The Lord of the Rings may be interested to know that a remote Indonesian island has yielded the remains of pint-size people - a surprising new human species â-hat paleontologists say lived just 18,000 years ago.
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More than 100 tourists on diving holidays are missing on islands off southern Thailand following the tsunamis, about 70 of them in the famed Emeral Cave, a tourist official has said.
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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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New Jersey backyards may be full of treasure -- who knew?
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For mycologists Â mushroom hunters Â working in the mountains of Belize, there's little glamour, but many mysteries to solve.