Paleontologists discover 308 million-year-old fossil of a new species of tiny dinosaur-like creature

Paleontologists discover 308 million-year-old fossil of a new species of tiny dinosaur-like creature known as a microsaur that used its head to smack into the ground and burrow Experts found a 308 million-year-old fossil of a new species of microsaur  Joermungandr bolti likely used its head to burrow underground Ridges were found on the fossil, … Read more

Exclusive for Mail on Sunday readers: Discover Corfu – the real star of TV’s The Durrells 

Exclusive for Mail on Sunday readers: Discover Corfu – the real star of TV’s The Durrells By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:00 BST, 17 July 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 17 July 2021 With series two of The Durrells now available on Netflix, you can revisit the charming story of Gerald Durrell’s family and … Read more

Exclusive for Mail on Sunday readers: Discover Holland in full bloom with Charlie Dimmock

Exclusive for Mail on Sunday readers: Discover Holland in full bloom with Charlie Dimmock By Mail on Sunday Published: 22:00 BST, 19 June 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 19 June 2021 Every spring, Holland’s famous bulb fields burst into bloom, blanketing the countryside in a riot of reds, oranges, pinks and yellows. On this superb … Read more

Pink reveals fears her children will ‘discover the real Alecia’ in new All I Know So Far documentary

Fans can get up close and personal to singer Pink – real name Alecia Beth Moore – like they never have before in her new documentary Pink: All I Know So Far, which follows the hit-maker on her Beautiful Trauma World Tour. And in the tell-all documentary, which offers an insight into the doting mother’s … Read more

Identical twins separated at birth in South Korea discover each other through DNA testing

Identical win sisters who were separated at birth in South Korea and adopted by two different American families recently learned that one another existed — and reunited for the first time on their 36th birthday.  Neither Molly Sinert nor Emily Bushnell knew that they were twins, or had much information at all about their backgrounds … Read more

Scientists discover two new species of burrowing mammal ancestors

Scientists have discovered two new species of burrowing animals that lived in northeastern China 120 million years ago.  Skeletal remains of the species, called Fossiomanus sinensis and Jueconodon chenispiky, reveal they had claws designed for ‘scratch digging’ – a technique to create tunnels using the claws of the forelimbs.  Experts at the American Museum of Natural … Read more

Scientists discover stress could lead to hair loss

Why stress can make you lose your hair: Scientists discover how tension suppresses the activity of hair follicles in breakthrough that could pave the way for a treatment for baldness Researchers studied the role of the stress hormone corticosterone on hair  Tests on mice found it inhibits the production of the chemical GAS6 This causes … Read more

Astronomers discover an elusive ‘Goldilocks’ black hole 55,000 times the mass of the sun

A ‘Goldilocks’ black hole that is about 55,000 times the mass of the sun has been discovered by astronomers, who say it is ‘not too big, and not too small’. The stellar phenomenon, discovered by University of Melbourne astronomers, was found about three billion light years way thanks to a technique involving the detection of the … Read more

Archaeologists discover a 3,200-year-old shrine to a knife-wielding SPIDER god

Archaeologists discover a 3,200-year-old shrine to a knife-wielding SPIDER GOD associated with rain and fertility in Peru Temple is around 3,200 years old and dates to the Cupisnique culture Most of the relic has been destroyed by farmers trying to expand their land  Site is now registered and will be protected from further vandalism  Believed it … Read more

Oww! Scientists discover the molecule in tooth cells that signals the brain when exposed to cold

There’s little as excruciating as biting into a cold ice-cream and feeling an awful jolt of pain, especially if you’ve been a bit lax in the dental hygiene department. Researchers from the US and Germany have finally gotten to the root of this pain — identifying the specific cells in teeth, odontoblasts, that sense cold temperatures. … Read more