World’s oldest ‘bug’ is a fossilized 425-million-year-old millipede discovered on a Scottish Island that suggests the ancient creatures evolved from water to live on land in just 40 million years The fossilized millipede was found on the Scottish Island of Kerrera An improve dating technique found it is 75 million years younger than believed Researchers … Read more
Chinese pterodactyl wings its way to the UK: Fossil of a toothless pterosaur commonly found in China and Brazil is discovered on the Isle of Wight The specimen was found by a dog walker in Sandown Bay on the island’s coast University of Portsmouth palaeontologists identified it as a toothless jawbone The fossil — ‘Wightia … Read more
iPhone vulnerability that lets users ‘jailbreak’ their devices to run apps and software that have not been approved by Apple is discovered Jailbreaking is able to run because of exploits and bugs found in Apple software This is the first time a jailbreak has worked on newer Apple devices in four years It uses an … Read more
Medieval cemetery discovered under a Berlin car park reveals its original residents’ lives were plagued by conflict, disease and poor diets Signs of rickets, scurvy and tuberculosis were found on some of the skeletons They had been buried around the former St Peter’s Church in Colln, now in Berlin Archaeologists suggested the remains reveal the … Read more
B&Q will stop selling weedkiller Roundup after cancer link discovered in the US The DIY giant delisted the weedkiller Roundup following links to cancer in the US The brand is no longer available in any size but 1 litre bottles are on clearance Glyphosate-based products are the most commonly used weedkiller in Britain By Sean … Read more
A frog no bigger than a 5p coin has been discovered in Madagascar – and already classed as critically endangered by conservationists. The new species of stump-toed frog, named Stumpffia troschaueri, is brown in colour with black spots on its side, in an apparent attempt to camouflage itself among the leaves around it. Four specimens were … Read more
Iron Age ‘princess’ discovered in France: Archaeologists unearth 2,200-year-old tomb of a woman dripping with blue glass beads and wearing a copper belt buckle Body was unearthed outside Saint-Vulbas, about 20 miles from the Lyon, France Woman, believed to be a princess, was buried wearing bracelets and belt buckle Separate burial was also made at … Read more
Iron age ‘Princess’ discovered in France: Archaeologists unearth 2,200-year-old tomb of a woman dripping with blue glass beads and wearing a copper belt buckle Body was unearthed outside Saint-Vulbas, about 20 miles from the Lyon, France Woman, believed to be a Princess, was buried with bracelets and belt buckle Separate burial was also made at … Read more
Chinese scientists have discovered two antibodies which prevent the coronavirus from invading human cells. The distinct antibodies are called H4 and B38 and prevent SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, from latching on to uninfected cells. In preliminary trials on mice, the amount of virus inside infected lungs was reduced by up to a third … Read more
New species of fungus that pierces its host to suck nutrients is discovered on TWITTER after biologists spot a image of an American millipede with bizarre red dots in a tweet A new species of fungus was discovered in a picture posted to Twitter Biologists saw bizarre, tiny red dots on an American millipede After … Read more