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German authorities think a good number of the paintings found in an art trove largely looted by the Nazis may ultimately be returned to the Munich man in whose apartment they were discovered.

• 11 ноября 2013, 15:24

Wrecks of an unidentified spacecraft have been discovered not far from Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.

• 06 ноября 2013, 17:09

Researchers have identified a new humpback dolphin species off northern Australia, using genetic mapping to single out an animal not previously known to science.

• 31 октября 2013, 16:15

An expedition to a remote part of northern Australia has uncovered three new vertebrate species isolated for millions of years..

• 28 октября 2013, 12:45

Two pre-Columbian mummies more than a thousand years old were found in a pre-Incan cemetery in a suburb of Lima.

• 25 октября 2013, 15:30

A tomb of a warrior of noble birth has been discovered by Pavlodar archaeologists near Kenzhekol village.

• 18 октября 2013, 13:20

It's no secret humans have been having sex for millennia -- but recently discovered cave art suggests they were doing it in the Americas much earlier than many archeologists believed.

• 10 октября 2013, 10:24

Gold and silver pieces as well as bones and pottery from 1,500 years ago were discovered in Lake Titicaca by underwater archaeologists.

• 09 октября 2013, 13:38

Karaganda archaeologists have discovered an unusual sculpture resembling the Scythian monuments of the Black Sea region.

• 05 октября 2013, 14:09

Brazil's oil giant Petrobras announced a new crude find Friday off the country's northeastern coast.

• 28 сентября 2013, 13:02

British Max Petroleum PLC has discovered oil at Sagiz West and Uitas fields in Atyrau oblast in western Kazakhstan.

• 11 сентября 2013, 14:09

Geologists on Thursday announced they had uncovered a stupendous volcano that is the biggest in the world and rivals the greatest in the Solar System.

• 07 сентября 2013, 10:24

A 350-million-year-old fossilised scorpion discovered in South Africa is the oldest known land animal to have lived on Gondwana, part of Earth's former supercontinent.

• 03 сентября 2013, 16:21

The discovery in Peru of another tomb belonging to a pre-Hispanic priestess, the eighth in more than two decades, confirms that powerful women ruled this region 1,200 years ago.

• 24 августа 2013, 11:54

The earliest iron artefacts ever found -- funeral beads strung around bodies in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian cemetery -- were made from a meteorite.

• 20 августа 2013, 18:56

A lap-sized critter that looks like a mix between a raccoon and a teddy bear was unveiled Thursday as the first new carnivore in the Western Hemisphere in 35 years.

• 17 августа 2013, 10:39

Scientists said Wednesday they had discovered two new species of a strange bone-devouring worm thriving in the mysterious waters that surround the Antarctic continent.

• 15 августа 2013, 10:04

A year ago, the world's largest particle collider made one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science, identifying what is believed to be the Higgs Boson -- the long-sought maker of mass.

• 01 августа 2013, 13:31

A broken T. rex tooth found in another dinosaur's tail bone offers the first hard evidence that the king of all meat-eating beasts hunted live prey.

• 17 июля 2013, 11:30

A tiny new moon has been spotted circling Neptune -- the 14th known to be orbiting the faraway planet.

• 16 июля 2013, 14:54