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"It is rare for these metal coffins to have survived intact," Daniel O'Flynn, an X-ray imaging scientist at the British Museum, told Newsweek.

"For the life of me I can't understand why anyone would want to steal it," said Angela George of Australia's Eden Killer Whale Museum.

"When a species is this rare, elusive and hard to study, every little finding helps build a picture of its life," the first author of a new study said.

"Putting a name to something is the first and most important step towards conservation," study leader Yi-Kai Tea told Newsweek. "You cannot protect what we don't know exist."

The new species, Euoplos dignitas, can grow to nearly 2 inches long and hides itself in underground burrows on the woodland floor.

Prince William and Kate Middleton's abilities with sign language left fans proclaiming: "They will make a good king and queen."

A 1989 gown worn by Diana has become the most expensive of her dresses to be sold on the open market, earning a hammer price of $604,800.

The ancient specimen is the largest known amber-preserved flower fossil to date.

Princess Diana showed the world from a young age her ability to set trends, becoming one of fashion history's most enduring style icons.

Collections of vintage cars are kept by automakers as trophies of past accomplishments and to serve as inspiration.

The skeleton is one of only three pregnant T. rex skeletons to have been discovered.

The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft in Iceland hosts various weird and wacky displays, including mummified animal skulls and rune-carved wooden staves.

The fossil, an ancestor of turkeys and grouse, was found in modern-day Nebraska, and lived around 11 million years ago.

"The critical context of the fossil" is lost when it is removed by non-scientists, paleontologist Justin Adams told Newsweek.

Scientists have vocally protested the auction of large dinosaur specimens in the past, many of which sell for millions of dollars.

The natural history museum is filled with James Hogg's personal collection of fossils and he is hoping to expand in the future.

The championship belt, which was a gift to the statesman from boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, was reportedly taken by thieves who broke into a South African museum.

The museum's board of directors told Newsweek that they were "shocked and saddened that this happened" on their watch.

Mariupol City Council members have publicly accused Russia of mimicking the looting of art by the Nazis during World War II.

"Genuinely don't have a single problem with mixed toilets, as long as they're cubicles only," said one comment on Sarahjane Jones's post.

The museum listing describes the item as a jug designed by Peter Dümler, and made by S P Gerz in Höhr, Germany.

The woman said she has been interested in the Titanic for as long as she can remember and wanted to do something to commemorate the 110-year anniversary.

A new movie car exhibit featuring cars from "Ghostbusters," "Black Panther," "Batman" and more opens March 12 at the The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles

The art conservation student gained over 1 million views by showing how the Toledo Museum of Art was cleaned in a renovation project.

"The story has just begun, in essence, and we hope to learn more about this species," Dr. David Webster said.

The trial of the men, whose ages range from 22 to 28, accused of stealing from the Green Vault Museum in Dresden will begin on January 28.

The Sackler name will be stripped from seven exhibition spaces in the famous New York City museum.

The National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul reopened last week for the first time since the Taliban's mid-August takeover.

Astonished experts found a dusty box abandoned for decades contained previously unknown mollusks from 15 million years ago.

The 1954 ink-on-paper work was bought by the Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF and turned into a new work.