The Armchair Traveller reveals how to explore the world from home: Discover breathtaking cliff-diving locations and Europe’s best cycle tours Red Bull’s YouTube channel has a 20-minute tour of stunning cliff-diving spots Bike firm Freewheel Holidays holds weekly webinars about cycle tours in Europe Access a playlist of Portuguese-themed music heard in five-star therapy rooms … Read more
Rock samples taken from under the Chicxulub crater left by the dinosaur-killing asteroid 66 million years ago could hold the key to the origin of life on Earth. A team of researchers found that the impact of the city-sized space rock produced a network of warm waterways under the crater, which is in the Yucatán Peninsula … Read more
Coral-covered shipwreck discovered off the coast of Mexico met its fate after crashing into the ‘Nightmare reef’ over 200 years ago A fisherman spotted the wreck in the 1990s, but experts investigated the remains in just the two past months The organic material degraded, but metal parts, iron ingots, the anchor and a cannon are … Read more
Fugitive cartel leader, featured in Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico tells Mexican court he’s broke so is not a flight risk as he fights his extradition to the United States for the 1985 murder of a DEA agent Rafael Caro Quintero informed a Mexico City court that he has no money and is unemployed in his latest … Read more
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago crashed into Earth at ‘the deadliest possible angle’, researchers have concluded. The giant impacter struck what is today Mexico‘s Yucatán Peninsula at around 60 degrees — maximising the production of climate-altering greenhouse gases. The global disaster caused by the space rock — which was … Read more
Excavations in Mexico have revealed a graveyard of almost 70 fossilised mammoths. Stunning images from the site reveal the bright white skulls and tusks of the prehistoric giants. Fossilised remains of the now extinct cousin of the elephant were first discovered in 2019 during routine digs to clear land for a new airport. Ongoing work … Read more
Bizarre moment cowboy LASSOES runaway tiger around its neck after chasing it along a street in Mexico The tiger is running along the street in San Pedro Tlaquepaque in Jalisco Three men are chasing it and one is carrying a lasso while another has a folding chair A van pulls up on the pavement to … Read more
Scientists have discovered a coronavirus mutation that is of ‘urgent concern’ because it makes the virus more contagious and has already become dominant in the places it’s reached – including part of the US. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico say that the mutant strain started spreading in early February in Europe. … Read more
New Mexico’s Governor has issued a three-day emergency order in the city of Gallup where roads will be sealed off and businesses closed during peak hours in a desperate bid to stop a surging coronavirus outbreak. On Friday Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham invoked the state’s Riot Control Act to ban all traffic in Gallup for … Read more
Some of the earliest people forced into slavery in Latin America in the 16th century have been revealed, shedding light on their tragic lives. Three male skeletons were unearthed in a mass grave on the grounds of Hospital Real de San José de los Naturales, an early colonial hospital in Mexico City. Analysis of their … Read more