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Cat fight! Moment feisty kitten tries to start tussle with uninterested two year-old toddler as he watches Sesame Street The video shows Marshall the kitten tapping and hissing at two-year-old Rory Toddler is too busy watching TV at home in Sudbury, Ontario, to notice the cat Rory’s mother, Kailtin Rorison, captured footage in her living … Read more
3D printer completes 37-million-year-old saber-toothed tiger skeleton – before the four-foot long fossil goes auction with an asking price of $90,000 A four-foot skeleton of a Hoplophoneus is going up for auction next week It’s one of several prehistoric creatures dubbed a ‘saber-toothed tiger,’ though none are closely related to the modern feline Ninety percent of … Read more
Evidence for a Stone Age campsite — including flint tools and the charred remains of a 7,000-year-old hazelnut shell have been found in the New Forest. Archaeologists and volunteers from the National Park Authority and the University of Bournemouth carried out the excavations at the Beaulieu Estate in Hampshire. Destructive radiocarbon dating of the shell placed it and … Read more
Internet sleuths find Dominic Cummings added mention of coronavirus into a year-old blog post just weeks ago after he said he warned about pandemics ‘last year’ PM’s special adviser said at Downing Street on Monday he had written about the ‘urgent need for planning’ for a coronavirus pandemic in 2019 Mr Cummings is now facing … 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
What you NEED to know about hand sanitiser: Doctors reveal whether it’s really safe to use your old bottles – and when you must get rid of them Doctors have revealed why you need to pay close attention to expiry dates If your hand sanitiser is out of date, it could be almost totally ineffective … Read more
HISTORY THE STONEMASON by Andrew Ziminski (John Murray £20, 336pp) West Kennet Long Barrow has been standing amid the downs of North Wiltshire since around 3650 BC — a thousand years before the first Egyptian pyramid was so much as a gleam in a Pharaoh’s eye. And you can still crawl inside it. This is … Read more
Were ancient humans VEGETARIANS? 65,000-year-old archaeology site in Australia shows aboriginal groups subsisted on a diet of fruits, nuts, palm stems, and roasted roots and tubers A team from the University of Queensland found ancient charcoal remains The charcoal contain trace elements of food cooked by locals 65,000 years ago It shows ancient humans subsisted … Read more