Horses reintroduced to North America by settlers in the 1500s were descendants of those that went extinct 11,000 years ago, a study has found. Analysis of ancient bones and teeth has found similar DNA in horses that died out at the end of the last ice age in North America and those in Eurasia that … Read more
Madrid will become the first European capital to head back into lockdown following new coronavirus restrictions imposed by the Spanish government Some 4.8 million residents in the Spanish capital will be barred from leaving the area after the city suffered one of the highest infection rates of any region in Europe, with 850 cases per 100,000 … Read more
Most Americans with coronavirus are infected with a strain that came from Europe – but the strain that shut down Wuhan, China spread on the West Coast, recent research shows. Coronavirus likely came to the US first from Europe, circulating unseen among New Yorkers for weeks before the state’s first case was diagnosed, and even … Read more
Most Americans with coronavirus are infected with a strain that came from Europe – But the US was hit from both sides, with the strain that shut down Wuhan, China spreading on the West Coast, recent research shows. Coronavirus likely came to the US first from Europe, circulating unseen among New Yorkers for weeks before … Read more
Coronavirus hysteria in Europe rumbles on as Poland’s shut frontiers cause huge traffic jams in Germany and Ukraine – while Serbia and Slovakia went into lockdown and Portugal closed its border with Spain. Popular cities across the Continent – from Spain and Germany to Ukraine and Serbia – resembled ghost towns as residents spooked into … Read more