African explorer's body exhumed
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The remains of Pierre de Brazza, 19th century French explorer and founder of modern day Congo, are exhumed in Algeria.
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Scientists have exhumed the bodies of some relatives of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Salzburg, Austria, to obtain DNA samples.
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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.
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The earliest-known human ancestors  to migrate out of Africa possessed a surprising mix of  human-like and primitive features, according to scientists who  studied remains dug up at a fossil-rich site in the former  Soviet republic of Georgia.
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Archeologists discovered the mummified remains of a doctor they believe lived more than 4,000 years ago and who was buried along with metal surgical tools.
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A fragment of human skull found in a 400-year-old trash pit at the historic Jamestown settlement shows evidence of the earliest known surgery â-nd autopsy â -the British Colonies in America, researchers say.
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Science & environment: Â· Scientists shed new light on disputed skeleton findÂ· Bone analysis supports distinct species theory
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LUXOR, Egypt -- A team of researchers briefly removed King Tut's mummy from its tomb yesterday and laid bare his bones for a CT scan that could solve an enduring mystery: Was it murder or natural causes that killed Egypt's boy pharaoh 3,000 years ago?
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WASHINGTON: Based on recent fossil evidences, American scientists have claimed that a chimp-sized hominid walked upright on two legs in Kenya&#39;s Tugen Hills over six million years ago, nearly three million years earlier than currently believed.
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An airborne biologist and his team have found the remains of large-scale elephant slaughters, evidence of a major poaching problem on the borders of a central African wildlife park.See photos >>Watch video >>
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Spanish researchers say they have found the remains of an extinct species of great ape that may have been the last ancestor humans shared with gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans.
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An ancient skull from South Africa  and carved tools and ornaments from Russia paint a rare picture  of the time when modern humans migrated out of Africa to  colonize Europe, researchers reported on Thursday.
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IFOTAKA, Madagascar  - Manahira Mahateraka  communicates with the dead.
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Scientists plan to exhume within the next five months the body of a British diplomat who died in 1919 of the Spanish flu, in a move they hope will provide vital clues on how to fight any future pandemic.
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By ANTHONY MITCHELL NAIROBI, Kenya - Deep in the dusty, unlit corridors of Kenya's national museum, locked away in a plain-looking cabinet, is one of mankind's oldest relics: Turkana Boy, as he is known, the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human ever found.
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MTUBATUBA, South Africa  - Philisiwe Zulu was 51 when she got the call from the spirits of her ancestors.
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Fossil hunters have unearthed the skeleton of a young girl who died 3.3 million years ago, marking the first time scientists have discovered the nearly complete remains of a child of an ancient human ancestor.