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Potential 'killer blow' to King Richard III revealed Posted: 12 Feb 2015 06:19 PM PST New film footage reveals for the first time details of the potential killer blow that claimed the life of King Richard III.

Earliest-known arboreal and subterranean ancestral mammals discovered Posted: 12 Feb 2015 11:14 AM PST The fossils of two interrelated ancestral mammals, newly discovered in China, suggest that the wide-ranging ecological diversity of modern mammals had a precedent more than 160 million years ago.

Bejewelled backdrop to coronations did not cost a king’s ransom Posted: 12 Feb 2015 03:50 AM PST Research into England's oldest medieval altarpiece -- which for centuries provided the backdrop to Westminster Abbey coronations -- has revealed that it cost no more than the rather unprincely equivalent of eight cows.