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Belgravia Rating: Celebrity Murder Mystery Rating: How outdated it all seems, the emphasis on good breeding and the reverence shown to sons and nephews of earls in the Victorian London of Belgravia (ITV). It wouldn’t happen now, eh? But the aristocracy of tellyland is just as convoluted and interwoven as the family trees in Burke’s … Read more
Meet the ‘Wonderchicken’: Scientists identify the oldest fossil ever found of a modern bird thought to be an ancestor of today’s hens and ducks The Wonderchicken — or ‘Asteriornis’ — lived around 67 million years ago According to the researchers it resembles a ‘mash-up’ of a duck and a chicken It was a small bird … Read more
Bird flu is detected in both India and The Philippines prompting cull of more than 12,000 quails, chickens and ducks More than 12,000 quail birds have been culled to stop bird flu in the Phillippines Quail farm detects the highly infectious H5N6 subtype of the bird flu virus Authorities are now contact-tracing to determine the … Read more
We don’t know how this will end, but we have a good idea of how it started. The coronavirus sweeping the world can be traced back to a food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the new strain first transferred from wildlife to humans. The idea of cross-species infection scares us because it … Read more
Absolutely nuts! Hilarious moment a determined squirrel is left spinning in circles for a minute while hanging onto a motorised bird feeder he was trying to get food from Alex Dunigan filmed a squirrel trying to raid a bird feeder at his parents’ home The grey squirrel was spun around rapidly while trying to feed … Read more
Nuts to that! Hilarious moment squirrel is defeated by an oiled bird feeder pole and gently slides to the ground Cheeky squirrel desperately tries to scrabble up the pole in Buckinghamshire Bird feeder owner had used extra virgin olive oil to foil the greedy squirrel’s plan While he slowly slides down the police the squirrel … Read more