Read more about the article Summer School Student Finds Bee Species Not Seen In The Area In More Than 65 Years
Picture shows a bee captured by a Canadian museum's summer school attendant that has been identified as a rare species - not seen in the province for almost 70 years, undated. Zoologist Dr Cory Sheffield from the Royal Saskatchewan Museum (RSM) in the city of Regina, Saskatchewan Province, said the discovered type was determined to be a Macropis Cuckoo Bee specimen. (Saskatchewan Government, NewsX/Bee)

Summer School Student Finds Bee Species Not Seen In The Area In More Than 65 Years

A bee captured by a Canadian museum's summer school attendant has been identified as a rare species that has not been seen in the province for almost 70 years. Zoologist…

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Read more about the article World’s Oldest Book Was About The Price Of Beer
Photo shows an Egyptian papyrus from the 3rd century BC showing evidence of sewing, indicating that it must have been part of the oldest-known book, undated. The fragment was found in 1902 in the wrapping of a mummy. (Uni Graz,Kernasenko/Newsflash)

World’s Oldest Book Was About The Price Of Beer

A scrap of papyrus left on a museum shelf for a hundred years has been found to be a page from what experts say is the oldest book ever written…

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Read more about the article Boffins Discover Unknown Beetle Among Historical Items Which Escaped Devastating Museum Fire
Image shows the newly discovered beetle species Dorynota phoenix, undated photo. It was almost destroyed in a fire at the Brazilian National Museum in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2018. (Senckenberg/Newsflash)

Boffins Discover Unknown Beetle Among Historical Items Which Escaped Devastating Museum Fire

Scientists examining one of the few items to have escaped a devastating fire that destroyed a spectacular museum collection have discovered a previously unknown species of insect. The Brazilian National…

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Read more about the article German Museum Robbed Of EUR 113M Gets EUR 1M Chess Set Gifted To Mark 300th Anniversary
Image shows the chess set, undated photo. Its figures were made by Paul Heermann, Dresden, Germany, in 1705, while the board box was made by Paul Solanier, Augsburg, Germany, between 1705-1709. (Galerie Kugel, Paris, Guillaume Benoit/Newsflash)

German Museum Robbed Of EUR 113M Gets EUR 1M Chess Set Gifted To Mark 300th Anniversary

A museum in Germany that lost treasures worth EUR 113 million when it was robbed in 2019 has received a chess set worth nearly EUR one million as a present…

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Read more about the article Fritzl Home Is Now Rented Apartments
Image shows the house of Josef Fritzl, aged 87, in the town of Amstetten, Lower Austria State, Austria, undated photo. He is currently serving his sentence at the Stein Prison, in the town of Krems an der Donau, Austria. (Newsflash)

Fritzl Home Is Now Rented Apartments

The home of Austrian criminal Josef Fritzl has been divided into apartments rented to young people after plans to turn it into a horror museum failed. And the basement dungeon…

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Read more about the article Looted 7th Century BC Artefact Returned To Iraq After Adorning US Museum For 17 Years
Photo shows an artifact that is believed to have been stolen during the pillaging of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad in 2003 and returned to Iraq by FBI, undated. Archaeologists believe the artifact, which stands only 2 1/4 inches tall and 1 1/2 inches wide, dates back 2,700 years. (FBI/Newsflash)

Looted 7th Century BC Artefact Returned To Iraq After Adorning US Museum For 17 Years

US authorities have repatriated a 2,700-year-old artefact stolen from a museum in Iraq 20 years ago. The Iron Age artefact, named 'Furniture Fitting with Sphinx Trampling a Youth', was reportedly…

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Read more about the article Gruesome Moment Huge Snake Bit Off More Than It Could Chew Immortalised For A Century
Image shows an anaconda devouring a capybara, undated photo. It was caught by a hunter in Brazil in 1924. (Sven Traenkner/Newsflash)

Gruesome Moment Huge Snake Bit Off More Than It Could Chew Immortalised For A Century

This is the historic moment a huge anaconda bit off more than it could chew in Brazil 100 years ago. Because just as the 17ft long snake was swallowing a…

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Read more about the article Ukrainian Museum Exhibit Allows Visitors To Sink Russian Warship Destroyed During Fighting
Photo shows Moskva moored in Sevastopol Bay in 2012. Moskva is the lead ship of the Project 1164 Atlant class of guided missile cruisers in the Russian Navy. (CEN)

Ukrainian Museum Exhibit Allows Visitors To Sink Russian Warship Destroyed During Fighting

These images show how a museum in Ukraine is allowing its visitors to sink a model of the Russian warship 'Moskva'. The footage, filmed at the Lviv Museum of Science…

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Read more about the article Biggest Gems Raid In History Came From School Trip
Image shows the shelves where the jewels were stolen, undated photo. The defendants confessed over the 113 million (GBP 100 million) jewels stolen three years ago from the Green Vault museum in Dresden, Saxony State, Germany. (Newsflash)

Biggest Gems Raid In History Came From School Trip

A gang member behind a EUR 113 million jewellery heist in Germany has told a court that he got the idea for the break-in from a school trip. Mohammed Remmo…

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Read more about the article Winter Wonderland Where The One-Eyed Wolf Is King
One-eyed wolf asserts dominance over other pack members, at the Skeena River watershed in northern British Columbia, Canada, in undated footage. According to professor Andrew Hendry, the province of BC is currently doing a wolf-cull, where they kill wild wolves in a misguided effort to save endangered caribou. (@hendryandrew/Newsflash)

Winter Wonderland Where The One-Eyed Wolf Is King

One-eyed wolf shows he is still the leader of the pack, surprising researchers who have been monitoring the group for years and had not realised he was the Alpha male.…

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