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news.discovery.com — Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a 2,700-year-old clay seal with the name of Bethlehem, showing that the town existed centuries before it was revered as Jesus' birthplace. Discovered during the sifting‭ ‬of‭ debris ‬removed‭ ‬from archaeological excavations near the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, the coin-sized clay seal, or bulla, was imprinted with three lines in ancient Hebrew script: "in the seventh," "Bethlehem" and "to the king."

news.discovery.com — The transition from swimming to walking involved some awkward first steps, according to a new study that recreated how one of the first animals, which left the sea for land, moved. The study found that that the fishy four-limbed animal Ichthyostega used its front limbs like crutches, pushing its body up and forward onto land while its legs and tail trailed behind.

news.discovery.com — Gemini III launches, carrying Grissom, Young and a hidden corned beef sandwich into space (NASA). The 1960's were pioneering years for space exploration. Driven by Cold War politics, President John Kennedy put the US space agency on a 'do or die' path to put a man on the moon before Soviet Russia.

news.discovery.com — Look over there, swimming through the waves. Is it a fish? Is it a robot? No, it's ... well, yes. It is a robot: a robot shaped like a fish. And this week, it was swimming through the water off the Spanish port of Gijon, flexing its fins as it went through the motions of conducting the kind of coastal marine patrol for which it was created.

news.discovery.com — In this chain reaction there are 60 big dominos each containing 990 dominos, and a small field of 600 dominos (which says 60,000) to bring the total up to 60,000 dominos used. It takes FlippyCat 65 hours to set it up, but only seconds to knock-em all down.

news.discovery.com — Edible Stop Signs: Ever start in on a bag of chips, then look down minutes later and wonder where it all went? Researchers at Cornell University have come up with one way to halt this kind of mindless snacking -- edible stop signs.

news.discovery.com — A new university-backed project aims to investigate cryptic species such as the yeti whose existence is unproven, through genetic testing. Researchers from Oxford University and the Lausanne Museum of Zoology are asking anyone with a collection of cryptozoological material to submit descriptions of it.

news.discovery.com — In the quest to explain why four climbers died on one of Mt. Everest's deadliest days ever, much attention has gone to overcrowding on the 29,035-foot peak. When the season's first good weather window opened on Friday and Saturday, about 150 climbers lined up to go for the summit.

news.discovery.com — Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a 2,700-year-old clay seal with the name of Bethlehem, showing that the town existed centuries before it was revered as Jesus' birthplace. Discovered during the sifting‭ ‬of‭ debris ‬removed‭ ‬from archaeological excavations near the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, the coin sized clay seal, or bulla, was imprinted with three lines in ancient Hebrew script: "in the seventh," "Bethlehem," and "to the king."

news.discovery.com — Before the doomsayers hijacked "Planet X" and used it as a phantom (a.k.a. "Nibiru") to scare people into believing the 2012 doomsday hype, the hunt for Planet X was an exciting astronomical quest to find a hypothetical world in the outermost reaches of the solar system in the early 20th century.