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If a Victorian historian had his way, there'd be a giant time capsule under Stonehenge
BBC News· 3 days agoIn 1877, the historian Frederic Harrison wanted to bury a legacy for the 29th Century beneath the...
3D genome extracted from 'freeze-dried' woolly mammoth
AFP via Yahoo News UK· 24 hours agoAbout 52,000 years ago, the skinned hide of a Siberian woolly mammoth was exposed to conditions so...
London City Airport granted five-year ban for Just Stop Oil
CityAM via Yahoo Finance UK· 1 day agoTwo Just Stop Oil activists were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage at Stansted Airport in...
Spring and summer washout delivers fewer butterflies
Daily Telegraph· 19 hours agoThe charity is also asking people to monitor species as figures show that butterflies are moving northwards as the climate warms overall. Experts...
An Investigation of the Sociology and Religion of the Andamanese - Nature
Nature· 18 hours agoThe tribes of the Great Andaman, which constitute by far the largest part of the whole race, are rapidly diminishing in numbers, and are fast forgetting their ancient lore; the next half-century ...
Fly Fever in Africa - Nature
Nature· 18 hours agoKoch has lately suggested that the African big game should be exterminated in order to destroy the principal means of nourishment of the tsetse fly. As this fly is the carrier of the infective ...
Wildlife charity calls for public to get involved in the Big Butterfly Count
Worcester News via Yahoo News UK· 21 hours ago"You will be gathering the important data we need to see what the latest impacts are on our...
Dinosaur unearthed on Isle of Wight identified as new plant-eating species
The Guardian· 3 days agoA new species of large plant-eating dinosaur that roamed the Isle of Wight about 125m years ago has been identified. The specimen, which has 149 bones in total, is the most complete dinosaur ...
Biological Unit for Vitamin A - Nature
Nature· 18 hours agoCertain foodstuffs are now required by law to include vitamin A, and regulations require that foodstuffs, claiming to contain vitamins, be labelled in units, Manufacturers who to-day handle ...
Mulleted mammoth called Chris Waddle helps scientists crack creatures’ genetic code
The Guardian· 1 day agoResearchers have reconstructed the genetic code of the woolly mammoth in unprecedented detail after discovering fossilised chromosomes in the skin of a 52,000-year-old carcass preserved in the ...