A 104-year-old Italian woman who survived the 1918 Spanish Flu has become the world’s oldest person to survive the coronavirus. Ada Zanusso fell ill at her nursing home in Biella in northern Italy on March 17, eight days after the Government imposed a lockdown on the country. She was tested positive for Covid-19 after experiencing a … Read more
The oldest genetic material ever extracted from a human has revealed a ‘sister group’ of hominins related to Homo sapiens, Denisovans and Neanderthals. Ancient proteins in the teeth of a fossil were discovered, analysed and dated to reveal the secrets of its owner. It was found this primitive human, a member of the species Homo antecessor, … Read more
The oldest genetic material ever extracted from a human has revealed a ‘sister group’ of hominins related to Homo sapiens, Denisovans and Neanderthals. Ancient proteins in the teeth of a fossil were discovered, analysed and dated to reveal the secrets of its owner. It was found this primitive human, a member of the species Homo antecessor, … Read more
A great grandmother-of-seven aged 94 is believed to have become the oldest woman in the UK to beat coronavirus, while an 82-year-old grandfather has also returned home after fighting off the killer infection. Joy, who has asked for her surname to not be revealed, is back home after battling the infection for nine days in … Read more
A great grandmother-of-seven aged 94 is believed to have become the oldest woman in the UK to beat coronavirus, while an 82-year-old grandfather has also returned home after fighting off the killer infection. Joy, who has asked for her surname to not be revealed, is back home after battling the infection for nine days in … Read more
A worm-like creature that lived more than half a billion years ago has been discovered which is the ancestor for almost all living creatures. The creature, called Ikaria wariootia, lived around 555 million years ago and was found in Australia. It is the earliest known bilaterian, a creature with both a front and back, two symmetrical sides … Read more
Meet the ‘Wonderchicken’: Scientists discover the oldest fossil of a modern bird — an ancestor of hens and ducks that waddled alongside the dinosaurs The Wonderchicken — or ‘Asteriornis’ — lived around 67 million years ago According to the researchers it resembles a ‘mash-up’ of a duck and a chicken It was a small bird … Read more