Here are your top stories for this Friday morning, April 20, 2012: – Lawyers in kidnapped baby case want mental evaluation – New probe in 33-year-old cold case – House faces veto threat – Discovery given to Smithsonian Mobile users: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2OAdxA5M-U

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Biologists from the Papua New Guinea National Museum and the U.S. Geological Survey have discovered a new species of “bumblebee gecko”, decorated like a bumblebee with black-and-gold stripes and rows of skin nodules that enhance its camouflage on the tropical forest floor. Specimens of the new bumblebee gecko, which measures about 5 inches from head [...]

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Space Shuttle Discovery, perched atop a Boeing 747 shuttle carrier aircraft, made its final voyage today as it headed from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to its retirement place in Washington, D.C. The longest-serving orbiter in the space shuttle fleet will be transferred to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and will be placed [...]

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Paleontologists in Chile have made a surprising discovery in the desert. Scientists there have uncovered what seems to be a massive graveyard of whale bones in Copiapo, more than a half-mile from the ocean. More than 80 whales, including 25 complete skeletons, were found in what has been deemed one of the driest deserts on the [...]

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Here’s something you certainly don’t see every day.  More accurately, here’s something you don’t see THROUGH every day. A buyer at an auction in Michigan scored a one-of-a-kind see-thru car. The 1939 Pontiac Deluxe Six “Ghost Car“, which was first put on display at the New York World’s Fair, was sold today for $308,000. Originally [...]

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The red swimsuit that helped Farrah Fawcett become a 1970s sex symbol is heading to Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Fawcett’s companion Ryan O’Neal donated the swimsuit along with several items to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History today. A 1976 poster of the Charlie’s Angels starlet in that same swimsuit sold like hotcakes back [...]

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It’s a new “Night” and “Museum” for Ben Stiller, who is joined by several other stars from the original film, as well as new characters from history. The centerpiece of the film will be bringing to life the Smithsonian Institution, which houses the world’s largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its [...]

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