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    • A photo of a boy and a man in kayaking gear looking over a river
      News 11-year-old Sir Ranulph Fiennes fan completes epic 25-mile kayak journey in aid of Polar Museum
      A schoolboy has completed an onerous 25-mile mission in his kayak, helping the Polar Museum to buy a set of photo negatives from Captain Scott's final journey along the way.
      16 October 2014
    • A photo of a piece of prehistoric human bone found in a cave in Georgia
      News 13,000-year-old hunter-gatherer bone in Georgian cave reveals "major new piece in human jigsaw", say scientists
      Zoologists have used a human right temporal bone from more than 13,000 years ago to pinpoint a new "fourth strand" of ancestry in pre and post-Ice Age Europeans.
      16 November 2015
    • A photo of a man holding up a small bone from the wing of a bird on parkland
      News 1,500-year-old bone of giant auk found by archaeologists in early medieval Scotland
      Archaeologists and leaders at the Scottish Seabird Centre say the upper arm bone of a flightless bird, last scene in Scotland in 1840, provides a warning about extinction.
      12 May 2014
    • A photo of the oldest true lobster at the Museum of Jurassic Marine Life in Dorset
      News 16 amazing exhibits from the finest collection of Late Jurassic Kimmeridgian fossils ever assembled in Britain
      As building starts on the £4.7 million Museum of Jurassic Marine Life in Dorset's Kimmeridge village, here are some of the eggs, skulls, rays and predators awaiting the public.
      06 August 2015
    • A photo of people holding a large grey fossil on the steps of a circular museum
      News 200 million-year-old fish fossils return to Scarborough after "extended vacation"
      Having spent 50 years in Doncaster, a set of ancient fish fossils are returning to Scarborough following a conservation project which has delighted curators in Yorkshire.
      12 August 2013
    • News 200-year-old token found on Dorset beach probably belonged to famous fossil-finder Mary Anning, say researchers
      Mary Anning, the famous 19th century fossil collector who was revered across the world, probably owned a childhood token from more than 200 years ago found on a Lyme Regis beach by researchers.
      22 November 2015
    • A photo of a sculpted bust of a man with a beard in blue and black
      Preview 21st century heads of Charles Darwin fill busts with ant colonies and DNA data
      When a bust of Charles Darwin moved to the Grant Museum of Zoology's new home in 2011, it left an empty plinth. A head-sculpting competition will redress the balance.
      03 February 2014
    • A photo showing a section of a leaf
      News 50 million-year-old hungry caterpillar bites found by scientists in Manchester
      Scientists have used an electromagnetic radiation technique 10 billion times brighter than the sun on a leaf fossil left by an epoch on the west of the US.
      26 March 2014
    • A photo of the blood system of an insect
      News 520 million-year-old swivel-eyed predator carried earliest cardiovascular system, say experts
      A fossil found in China, related to modern insects, spiders, lobsters and millipedes, has one of the earliest blood vessel systems in a living animal, say Natural History Museum scientists.
      08 April 2014
    • An image of an illustration of mythical figures from a scroll
      News 600-year-old alchemy tale revisited as Science Museum finds 23rd version of Ripley Scroll
      A 20-foot copy of a 15th century scroll telling tales of the earliest alchemists in Britain has been found by organisers preparing for a major new show at the Science Museum.
      22 March 2012
    • A photo of two ice cores
      News 600-year-old blocks of ice which hold key to climate analysis displayed at Science Museum
      A set of "awe-inspiring" ice cores drilled from Antarctica in 1989 arrive at the London venue's climate change gallery.
      13 December 2010
    • A photo of dinosaur footprints on rocks across an island
      News "A dinosaur disco preserved in stone": Scientists find tracks of long-necked sauropod dinosaurs from 170 million years ago in Scottish lagoons
      Sauropods could have supported their "hopelessly heavy" weight by lounging in swamps on the Isle of Skye during the Middle Jurassic period, say scientists.
      02 December 2015
    • A photo of a dinosaur bone
      News A Dragon Robber with a missing foot: Brothers discover UK's oldest Jurassic dinosaur on Welsh beach
      A dinosaur known as the Welsh Dragon that was found on a beach near Penarth has been reunited with one of its missing feet and named in honour of the fossil hunters who unearthed it.
      21 January 2016
    • a photo of a corner of a book with a doodle of an Elizabethan galleon in the corner
      News A magical glimpse into the Tudor imagination: Lost library of John Dee to be revealed
      An unmissable glimpse into the Tudor imagination is promised by the Royal College of Physicians who will be showing books from the extraordinary lost library of polymath, mathematician and magician John Dee for the very first time in 2016.
      21 October 2015
    • A photo of a large group of people with domestic pets on the steps outside a museum
      News A marvellous menagerie as National Museum Wales opens new gallery The Wolf Inside
      Chickens, pigs, goats and complete horse and cow skeletons feature in the Cardiff museum's new gallery, which also draws close comparisons between wolves and dogs.
      10 October 2012
    • A photo of a puppet-style figure which looks like a cross between a goblin and a fish
      Curator's Choice A mermaid model of a sprite: The Horniman Museum's 19th century monkey-fish
      Beloved of master showmen and made from fish, wood, wire and papier mâché, scientists are currently carrying out DNA tests on a mermaid model to determine if it came from Japan.
      03 May 2015
    • A photo of archaeologists digging on a brownfield site on top of a north american cliff
      News Aberdeen archaeologists rescue 700-year-old Yup'ik "melting village" in Quinhagak, Alaska
      Working with a tiny indigenous population on an Alaskan site three times the size of Scotland, experts from Aberdeen say their discoveries have wider implications for North America.
      10 January 2014
    • A photo of a young museum visitor looking at objects from space history as part of the Above and Beyond exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in London
      Review Above and Beyond at the National Maritime Museum: A place to let your inner kid run wild
      From the first photo taken of Earth from deep space to the latest technology and experiments, the National Maritime's Museum fun new exhibition is deceptively scientific, discovers Rachel Teskey.
      31 May 2016
    • A photo of a fly on top of a circular gold sculpture
      News Ace inventor John Taylor installs giant "time-devouring" kinetic clock at Science Museum
      A huge clock which took more than 100 workers two years to assemble is about to be put on display at the London centre.
      15 April 2011
    • A close-up photo of ancient teeth mottled brown against a black background
      News Acorns were starch enemies of Prehistoric tooth care, say museum cave explorers
      New findings by a Natural History Museum team investigating caves in Morocco suggest a starchy diet may have caused Prehistoric tooth decay.
      07 January 2014
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