A team of scientists has discovered what they say is the first evidence in the world – dating back 47 million years – of a snake giving birth to its young. Image shows the Messel boa (Messelophis variatus) which is the world's first fossil record of a viviparous snake, undated…
An allegedly 121-year-old woman has been 'discovered' after medics were called in to treat her - and it is now believed she may be the world's oldest living person. Elderly Maria Gomes dos Reis was found by authorities in Bom Jesus da Lapa, north-eastern Brazil, after she fell ill and…
Cops discovered that a man had been stabbed to death by his son and his wife, who suspected he was having an affair with his daughter-in-law, after he secretly put a tape recorder under the bed that recorded them plotting. Murdered Nazim Kacar, 51, who lived in the district of…
Researchers have discovered a jaw fragment from the world’s oldest rodent which inhabited Greenland over 215 million years ago. The team of Polish researchers published their findings in the peer-reviewed journal ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America’. The research began in 2014 when…
Credit: Newsflash/Kharaysin archaeological team-CSIC Archaeologists have discovered dozens of tiny human figures which they say were used in funeral rituals to celebrate the dead over 10,000 years ago. Human-shaped figures from 7,500 BC were discovered by Spanish archaeologists in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Kharaysin, located in the village of…
