Elizabeth Cook is just nine but is utterly devoted to pigeons Cooing, strutting, pecking, warbling and mating very energetically in a series of home-made wooden and mesh pens in a back garden in Devon, are 76 pigeons cared for by a small girl called Elizabeth Cook. She feeds them, talks to them, lets them sit on … Read more
The T.rex and other huge predatory dinosaurs were the masters of ‘energy-efficient walking’ at lower speeds, giving them an edge over faster prey species, study finds. Researchers from Mount Marty College, South Dakota used data on limb proportions, body mass and the gait of 70 species of therapod dinosaurs. They found that for small to … Read more
Having won two gold medals in the 2017 under-18 kayaking world cup when she was just 15, it’s fair to say Georgia Carmichael was in peak condition. But just six weeks after the event, she was struck down with searing headaches, chronic fatigue and an unbearable sensitivity to bright lights. Within months, she had suffered a … Read more