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130 million-year-old Iguanodon dinosaur bone found in Sunderland back garden

Experts from the Natural History Museum have been poring over a mysterious Sussex dinosaur bone which has been given to the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.

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300-million-year-old fossil fish resident returns to Bude Castle Heritage Centre

The Castle Heritage Centre in Bude is to welcome back the Cornish town's oldest resident - a 300-million-year-old fossil fish with razor sharp teeth.

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Archaeopteryx - missing link between birds and dinosaurs comes to National Museum Cardiff

A rare fossil that provides much debate among palaeontologists as to the link between dinosaurs and birds is to go on show at National Museum Cardiff.

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Sir David Attenborough launches Dinosaur Gallery at Leicester's New Walk Museum

The broadcaster launches a gallery which includes ancient fossils from the Charnwood Forest which has starred in his BBC shows, enormous dinosaurs and meteorites.

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Dino podcasts released as New Walk Museum prepares to launch new Dinosaur Gallery

Nine films focusing on the stars of the museum's new Dinosaur Gallery are being released daily in the run up to its opening on September 3.

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The Culture24/7: Science and Nature Picks for September 2011

Lunar rainbows, signed biscuits from the South Pole, pop-up 1980s hospitals and Dorset beaches transported to the heart of London in our round-up for September.

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Augmented Reality at the Natural History Museum's Attenborough Studio

How augmented reality is bringing extinct creatures alive at the Natural History Museum's Attenborough Studio.

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The Culture 24/7: Science and Nature picks for July

Dinosaurs, Arctic explorers, Lego, the life and death of stars and the heroics of Yuri Gagarin in our guide to some of this month's science and nature highlights.

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Natural History Museum at Tring brings out composite dodo skeletons and peregrine egg

The Secret World of Museum Science demonstrates the methods and madness in a show to inspire future scientists.

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John Shevlin's The Future Took us becomes first UCL show at Grant Museum of Zoology

Artist John Shevlin combines fossilisation with limestone lithographic printing in a new show at the Grant Museum.

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Age of Dinosaurs: Natural History Museum unleashes animatronic summer blockbuster

The Natural History Museum's puts an emphasis on prehistoric ecology with interactive fun for all the family.

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BBC hit Walking With Dinosaurs to form summer special spin-off show at Whitehaven's Beacon

Curators reveal an "amazing" exhibition, based on the BBC One show, will kick off at the Cumbria attraction this summer.

Lyme Regis Fossil Festival returns to idyllic coastal setting for more May Day science fun

Cabaret, dance, films, food, experts from across the country and more as Lyme Bay gets set for the 2011 Fossil Festival.

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In Pictures: Manchester Museum courts Hugo Boss designers for new Living Worlds gallery

See inside the new £400,000 gallery which planners hope will inspire the public to create a brighter environmental future.

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Age of the Dinosaur brings rocks, swamps and prehistoric beasts to Natural History Museum

The NHM is about to unleash a dinosaur summer spectacular complete with animatronics, fossils and specimen handling.

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