Woolly mammoths roamed what is now New England 12,800 years ago and a new study suggests they shared the landscape with the first humans who arrived in the region some 10,500 years ago. A team from Dartmouth College used radiocarbon dating on a rib fragment from the Mount Holly mammoth uncovered in Vermont in 1848, … Read more
Father and son, 80 and 55, are charged with human trafficking after 58-year-old man was found in 6ft shed ‘where he had lived for FORTY years’ British man, 58, was found allegedly living in a 6ft shed north of Carlisle in 2018 Officers found there was no heating, but a duvet and metred TV were … Read more
It’s something that most of us do without thinking twice, but our ability to chew food may be thanks to an ancient fish, according to a new study. Researchers say that chewing may have originated 380 million years ago in an ancient fish that could both bite and suck its prey. Named Tiktaalik roseae, it … Read more
Erin Molan reveals she once lived in her 1997 Holden Barina early on in her career as a journalist and the surprising reason why By Louise Starkey For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:43 GMT, 27 January 2021 | Updated: 01:47 GMT, 27 January 2021 These days she is a successful TV and radio host. … Read more
The 2,000-year-old remains of a child from a well-to-do family and their pet dog were discovered by archaeologists in France. The infant, estimated to be a year old, was found in Aulnat in the Auvergne region of central France by a team surveying for a planned airport expansion. The remains date back to the first … Read more
The devastating effect of Covid-19 is visible in its terrible death toll — but it has also affected millions of us in other, very different ways. Here, eight people share their stories with Lucy Laing. Often moving but inspirational, too, what unites them is the way the infection has changed their lives… Mother-of-two Christine Fildes … Read more
Ex-miner who lived in same road for 101 years dies of Covid months after whole street turned out to sing him Happy Birthday Harold Reed died on Christmas Eve after battling the virus in a Dover care home He lived on Dickson Road in Tower Hamlets, east London, for the rest of his life Mr … Read more
President John F. Kennedy’s Georgetown residence, where he lived when he met Jacqueline Bouvier, his future wife, has sold for $4.2million. Kennedy lived in the three-bedroom home with his sister, Eunice, from 1949 to 1951, Town and Country reports. During this time, he served as a junior member of the Senate for the state of Massachusetts. … Read more
Just three weeks ago, their futures looked hairy as they waited for new homes. But life no longer looks rough for these four-legged friends who all found new owners after appearing in the Mail. Today Max is jumping for joy, Quaver’s having a ball, Hubert’s got it licked, Gizmo’s bagged the sofa, Floss has a … Read more
A small dragon-like species of wingless reptile that lived 237 million years ago has been identified as one of the earliest ancestors of pterosaurs in a new study. Similarities between fossils of the so-called lagerpetids, which were wingless but had characteristically long hind-legs, and winged pterosaurs were revealed in CT scans. Although one could fly and the other … Read more