Swarm of grasshoppers weighing 30 TONS invaded Las Vegas on one night in 2019, radar data show

Las Vegas is one of the brightest-lit cities in the US that attracts people from around the world, but the artificial lights also lured 46 million grasshoppers in one summer night in 2019. A new study analyzed the invasion using radar data, finding that artificial light awakened the rather idle insects and did so in … Read more

Student, 20, returns to flat six months later to discover PIGEONS have invaded it

Home to roost: Student, 20, who forgot to close window in university halls room when he left due to Covid… returns six months later to discover PIGEONS have invaded his flat Oluwageorge Johnson, 20, left student halls in Nottingham suddenly in March Accommodation workers found pigeon mess after investigating a strange noise They found pigeon … Read more

Saxons may never have invaded England after the fall of Roman Britain

The ‘Anglo-Saxon era’ that is widely believed to have followed the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain in 410AD may have never existed, according to a University of Cambridge expert.  Schools teach that, after Romans left Britain, Britain was invaded and colonised by a throng of German-speaking barbarians from Europe, known as the Saxons.  This, … Read more

Saxons may never have invaded England after the fall of Roman Britain

The ‘Anglo-Saxon era’ that is widely believed to have followed the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain in 410AD may have never existed, according to a University of Cambridge expert.  Schools teach that, after Romans left Britain, Britain was invaded and colonised by a throng of German-speaking barbarians from Europe, known as the Saxons.  This, … Read more