Ancient skull found on N.Y. property
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Archaeologists surveying a property earmarked for a Long Island housing development discovered an ancient skull.
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Archaeologists discovered a rare Roman limestone sarcophagus containing a headless skeleton at the site of an historic London's church, authorities said Friday.
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Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered the human skeleton of what they conclude is the earliest known gunshot victim in the New World.
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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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The fossilised skull of a one-tonne rodent - the largest ever discovered - is described by scientists.
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A mastodon tooth fossil found in an Ontario, Canada, attic remains a mystery, after a paleontologist concluded it does not belong with a skeleton here that is one of the world's most complete.
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Complex skull operations were being performed as early as 960AD, remains of a body found at an archaeological dig show.
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A rare fossil from the age of the dinosaurs is shedding light on when the modern crocodile first evolved a skull strong enough to keep hold of its prey during the dismembering &#39;death roll&#39;.
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NEW YORK - A new fossil discovery from China sh
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NEW YORK - Police and federal agents found remains of two people believed to be former Mafia captains after expanding excavation work at a Queens lot reportedly used by a New York crime family, authorities said.    Searchers had recovered bones and other tissue in a shoe, ribs, a partial jaw and teeth and two personal items that led investigators to believe they had the remains of Bonanno crime family captains Philip Giaccone and Dominick Trinchera, law enforcement officials familiar with the dig said Tuesday on condition of anonymity...
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A scientific team that had been hoping to reconstruct the features of the great Italian poet Petrarch by digging up his bones has confirmed that the skull found in his tomb is not his.
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Palaeontologists, reporting an extraordinarily rare fossil find, say they have uncovered a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid child who lived at a key stage in primate evolution more than three million years ago.
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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 skull fragment found in a 400-year-old trash pit at Jamestown contains evidence of the earliest known surgery &#151; and autopsy &#151; in the English colonies in America, researchers say.
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A fragment of a bear skull in a Canadian museum may be rewriting the history of North America's brown bears.
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Adam Striegel, a 23-year-old senior at the University of Pittsburgh, went on a field trip this past spring to study rocks. This week, Striegel revels in the fame that comes with discovering the skull of a
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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.