Hirst's diamond skull sells for $100 million Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A diamond-encrusted platinum skull by artist Damien Hirst has been sold to an investment group for the asking price of $100 million.
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Hirst covers skull cast in diamonds Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Damien Hirst, former BritArt bad boy whose works infuriate and inspire in equal measure, did it again on Friday with a diamond-encrusted platinum cast of a human skull priced at a cool 50 million pounds.
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Massive croc skull found in Java Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists in Indonesia's central Java are celebrating the discovery of a massive fossilised crocodile skull, believed to be up to 700,000 years old.
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3.3 million-year-old baby skull found in northeastern Ethiopia Posted: 2 years ago by iduffee
Scientists have discovered a girls skull over 3.3 million years old. The 3 year old girls skeleton is believed to be a member of the Australopithecus afarensis family. The same species as the 1973 skeleton discovery in Ethiopia, nicknamed, "Lucy"
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Skull Chapel Posted: 1 year ago by fogowar
From the site:
"The Skull Chapel in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutna Hora in the Czech Republic. In 1776 a local priest founded a church made up of human skulls and tibia bones. All the bones were the victims of the Silesian wars and epidemics."
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'Rare' mammoth skull discovered Posted: 3 months ago by AutumnLotus
The "extremely rare" fossilised skull of a steppe mammoth has been unearthed in southern France.
The discovery in the Auvergne region could shed much needed light on the evolution of these mighty beasts.
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85 million-year-old dinosaur skull found in Japan Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
An 85 million-year-old dinosaur skull has been found in southwestern Japan, one of the oldest discoveries of its kind in the country.
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Fisherman nets skull fragment of friend Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A North Sea fisherman has netted a gruesome catch: a piece of skull belonging to his missing friend.
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Men charged after skull dug up, used as bong Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
One of the men allegedly told police they dug up a grave in an abandoned cemetery in the woods, removed a head from a body and smoked marijuana using the skull as a bong.
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The Terminator Skull DVD Player Posted: 3 weeks ago by AutumnLotus
The Endoskeleton Skull from The Terminator and T2 has been turned into a DVD Player.
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Prehistoric crocodile skull found on UK coast Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
The skull of a 130-million-year-old crocodile has been unearthed by a fossil-hunter along the UK coastline. It was discovered on the coast of Swanage in Dorset by Mr Richard Edmonds after he who spotted the prehistoric predator's 60cm skull poking out of a rock.
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Unusual fish-eating dinosaur had crocodile-like skull Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
An unusual dinosaur has been shown to have a skull that functioned like a fish-eating crocodile, despite looking like a dinosaur. It also possessed two huge hand claws, perhaps used as grappling hooks to lift fish from the water.
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Number plate sells for $8.24 million Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A SINGLE-DIGIT car registration plate was auctioned off for more than $US6.8 million (A8.24 million) dollars in the United Arab Emirates today, beating the previous world record by more than 10 times.
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Would You Sell Grandma's Skull For $250K ? Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
THE body parts market is lucrative and lightly regulated in the US. Estimates of its value range from $500 million to $1 billion (£530 million) a year.
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You gotta play it where it lands! - human skull found in middle of golf course fairway. Posted: 2 years ago by BrownTrout
"The identity and gender of the person had not been determined, but the skull had some distinguishing marks: a partial set of dentures, two of the teeth are gold, some of the teeth have a star pattern on them, and one of the front teeth has a golden "R" on it."
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Damien Hirst makes donation to The Tate Posted: 11 months ago by pocksucket
The Tate already have four works in their Hirst Collection and now he has donated another four, including the cow in formaldehyde and the sliced up horse.
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Buy a human skull Posted: 2 years ago by sabrnig
If you have 600 in cash buy a human skull! Real bones of humans and animals, no it is not illegal (in most states) and they even tell you how they cleaned them up!
All in the name of science and curiosity.
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Mountain of Light - Legend of the Diamond Posted: 1 year ago by zlovelj
The Kōh-i Nūr ( "Mountain of Light"; also spelled Kohinoor, Koh-e Noor or Koh-i-Nur)
is a 105 carat (21.6 g) diamond that was once the largest known diamond in the world.
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Dead cat transformed into black diamond ring Posted: 6 months ago by kamaloo
When Sooty the cat passed away his doting owner consoled herself by having him turned into a unique black diamond
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Of all the surprises, this takes the biscuit as woman finds diamond in her digestive Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
As surprises go, it was a particularly sparkling one for Kim Stead as she bit into a biscuit - and a DIAMOND fell out.
Mrs Stead, 49, found the gemstone after sinking her teeth into a McVitie's digestive biscuit.
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World's biggest diamond found in South African mine Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
The stone found was twice the weight of the previous record-holder, the Cullinan Diamond, which weighed about 3,106 carats.
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