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Page last updated at 10:57 GMT, Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Claudia Castillo
Windpipe transplant breakthrough
Surgeons in Spain claim a major breakthrough by giving a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells.
How the transplant works
'I was scared, but it went well'

Artist's impression of turtle Ancient turtle discovered on Skye
The earliest turtles to live in water have been discovered on - and named after - the Scottish island of Skye.

Homotherium reconstruction (D. Mol) Big cat fossil found in North Sea
A fossilised bone from a sabre-toothed cat has been dredged up from the seabed by a trawler off the UK coast.

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