Giant dinosaur skeleton is unearthed in China: 26ft Jurassic monster that’s nearly 70% intact is discovered in ‘rare’ find dating back 180 million years The fossil, found in Lufeng, south west China, is around 70 per cent complete Termed a ‘national treasure’ by head of the city’s dinosaur conservation centre Fossil believed to date back … Read more
Indonesian divers have been scouring the Java Sea for wreckage and passenger belongings in hope of finding the black boxes from the jet which crashed on Saturday with 62 people on board. Underwater footage of their rescue mission shows the divers examining the huge amount of debris from the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 which investigators say … Read more
An investigator with Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) said the Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board over the weekend possibly broke apart when it hit waters based on debris found so far. ‘We don’t know for sure, but if we look at the debris, they’re scattered … Read more
Playing a board game or going to the cinema could help to ward off dementia by protecting the grey matter of the brain, a study suggests. Grey matter is full of nerves and is essential for sending messages around the brain but it shrinks with age, causing brain cells to die and the organ to … Read more
What happened? Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year AD 79, burying the cities of Pompeii, Oplontis, and Stabiae under ashes and rock fragments, and the city of Herculaneum under a mudflow. Mount Vesuvius, on the west coast of Italy, is the only active volcano in continental Europe and is thought to be one of the … Read more
An Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered a large collection of 2,500-year-old sealed sarcophagi and figurines at the Saqqara Necropolis in Giza. Opening one of the ornately decorated sarcophagi for the first time before assembled media, the team revealed mummified remains wrapped in burial cloth that bore hieroglyphic inscriptions in bright colours. The dramatic find was unearthed … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: If cash is to survive on our High Streets, it is crucial that the post office network is kept intact By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 BST, 15 August 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 15 August 2020 The local post office is much changed from what it used to … Read more
A huge rotating disc galaxy has been discovered by astronomers and 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang it was already ‘well-ordered, cold’ and intact. The Wolfe Disk galaxy was found by astronomers from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The universe is 13.8 billion years old and most galaxies, … Read more