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Wolf Hall author Dame Hilary Mantel has called for the skeleton of the 18th Century ‘Irish Giant’ currently held by the Royal College of Surgeons to be repatriated after he asked to be buried at sea. Mantel wrote The Giant, O’Brien, a fictionalised account of 8ft 4in Charles Byrne, who suffered from acromegalic gigantism and … Read more
The skeleton of an Allosaurus which prowled for prey around Wyoming more than 150 million years ago is set to fetch around £1million at auction. The rare fossil is on display at the Drouot Auction House in Paris, where it will be auctioned by Maison Binoche et Giquello on October 13. It was discovered in Johnson County, Wyoming, … Read more
A British museum will send a Viking skeleton that was butchered in an ethnic cleansing massacre in AD 1002 to its home in Denmark to be reunited with its 1,000-year-old relative. The skeleton, known as SK1756, is being held at Oxfordshire County Council’s Museum Resource Centre and is one of at least 35 men and … Read more
He’s my boo! Two-year-old’s best friend is a five-foot-tall skeleton that he insists his mom bring everywhere including the grocery store and park Abigail Brady’s son, Theo, has found new friend in the form of a skeleton, Benny Theo insists on bringing his skeleton in the car to run errands or play at the park … Read more
The world’s first complete dinosaur skeleton – found 160 years ago – has finally been studied and its position on the Jurassic family tree confirmed. Researchers from the University of Cambridge spent the past three years preparing a detailed description and biological analysis of the skeleton of the Scelidosaurus. This completes the work started by … Read more
Talking Heads Rating: The Choir: Singing for Britain Rating: When the BBC were looking for something fresh to fill out their schedules in the lockdown, it’s not surprising the remaking of Talking Heads (BBC1) topped the list. Featuring one performer, mostly filmed on one set requiring a skeleton crew, Alan Bennett’s famous series of monologues, … Read more
Spanish archaeologists believe they may have found the skeleton of the hero Irish chieftain ‘Red’ Hugh O’Donnell who fought fiercely against the English during the Tudor conquest of Ireland. More than a dozen intact remains have been discovered this week in digging by the Hispano-Irish Association at La Capilla de las Maravillas (the Chapel of … Read more
4,500 year-old skeleton found in German countryside grave ‘lovingly bordered with field stones,’ offering new insight on ancient burial practices Archeologists in the German countryside discovered a 4,500 year-old gravesite It contained the remains of a woman buried in a north facing fetal position The positioning is similar to that found in other sites across … Read more
An almost complete 300,000-year-old elephant skeleton with eight-foot tusks has been recovered from a former mine in Germany. The Eurasian straight-tusked elephant, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, died by the shores of an ancient lake before its corpse was scavenged by carnivores. Human ancestors are thought to have eaten from the carcass, as 30 small flint flakes and … Read more
A giant fanged mammal that lived at the time of the dinosaurs, has been discovered by archaeologists in Madagascar – and they’ve named it ‘Crazy Beast’. The two foot long seven pound creature had three huge curved front fangs, an unusual short, stubby tail and holes in its face – it lived 66 million years ago. … Read more