An ancient meteorite that exploded in mid-air 430,000 years ago left behind unusual particles of matter in the mountains of Antarctica, a new study reveals. An international team of space scientists, led by the University of Kent, examined ‘extra-terrestrial particles’ recovered from the summit of mountain Walnumfjellet in the Sør Rondane Mountains of Queen Maud … Read more
Newly unearthed footage of Prince Charles and Diana’s infamous engagement interview has emerged, showing the Princess of Wales looking ‘clearly dissatisfied’ after her husband-to-be’s comments asking if the couple were ‘in love’. On February 24, 1981, after months of speculation, a 32-year-old Charles who had long ‘needed’ to find a bride was marrying an excited … Read more
The Bachelor alum Taylor Nolan’s offensive tweets have led to ‘multiple complaints’ being filed against her with the Washington State Department Of Health. Nolan, 27, posted the tweets in 2011 and 2012 but they were unearthed this week, causing a furious backlash online. As she is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington, the complaints … Read more
A resurfaced interview between Oprah Winfrey and twin actresses Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen is courting controversy, as it featured the chat show queen asking the teenage girls ‘what size are you?’ Filmed in 2004, the girls were 17, with Mary-Kate rumoured to be suffering with an eating disorder at the time. The interview sees Oprah … Read more
Primate fossils dating back more than 66 million years are the earliest examples of our ancient ancestors, and could hold the key to understanding life after dinosaurs. Archaeologists from the University of Washington’s Burke Museum analysed several fossils of Purgatorius, the oldest members of the earliest-known primate species. The team studied fossilised teeth from the … Read more
The skeleton of a friar with two broken legs resembling a medieval ‘hit and run’, probably from a cart accident that killed him, has been unearthed by Cambridge archaeologists. The team from the University of Cambridge were examining skeletal trauma from 314 skeletons buried at three locations in the city between the 10th and 14th … Read more
The skeleton of a friar with two broken legs resembling a medieval ‘hit and run’, probably from a cart accident that killed him, has been unearthed by Cambridge archaeologists. The team from the University of Cambridge were examining skeletal trauma from 314 skeletons buried at three locations in the city between the 10th and 14th … Read more
A giant prehistoric worm that leapt from tunnels in the seabed and could slice fish in half, according to a new study. Researchers found large, L-shaped burrows from layers of seafloor dating back to the Miocene period (23 million to 5.3 million years ago) of northeast Taiwan. These burrows are trace fossils – geological records of … Read more
Thousands of beads and brooches are unearthed at site of massive Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Northamptonshire along with weapons, textiles and other precious grave goods Archaeologists excavated the 15 hectare construction site at Overstone Gate The team found 154 Anglo-Saxon graves containing some 3,000 grave goods Alongside the cemetery, the dig also revealed a settlement from … Read more
Dinosaur fossil from 98 million-years-ago unearthed in Argentina may have been the largest animal to ever walk the Earth, study claims The fossil remains — including tail and pelvic bones — were uncovered in 2012 The giant titanosaur sauropod dinosaur would have had a long neck and tail It was preserved in a muddy floodplain in what … Read more