Earliest T Rex discovered
A breakthrough discovery has been reported by a team of Polish scientists.
Paleontologists digging in a brickyard in southern Poland have discovered the remains of a dinosaur they say is a previously unknown ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and a dicynodont, a mammal-like reptile, in the village of Lisowice in southern Poland.
Welcome to Spring
After a flurry of snow at Easter, Spring has arrived in a rush. Our resident blackbird is singing its head off every morning and evening as it perches on the next door gable and the aubretia is a purple carpet on the flower bed.
Starfish shoals washed up on Kent Coast
For five miles they stretched along the beaches, a gruesome line of dead starfish.
Fishermen and bird-watchers at Pegwell Bay near Sandwich, Kent, discovered a "carpet" of thousands of the creatures lying on the sand just above the water line.
One theory for the cause is that the starfish had run out of mussels to eat off shore and had moved into shallow water in the search for food. The local mussel beds were dredged recently.
Monster Frog Fossil found in Madagascar
A 70-million-year-old fossil of a giant frog has been unearthed in Madagascar by a team of UK and US scientists.
The creature would have been the size of a "squashed beach ball" and weighed about 4kg (9lb), the researchers said.
BA jet crashes at Heathrow
British Airways flight BA038 from Beijing (China) to London crash landed short of the south runway at Heathrow Airport on 17 January 2008 causing major disruption to flights and local traffic.
All 136 passengers on board the Boeing 777 were safely evacuated. The incident happened as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was due to leave Heathrow for China and India.
Goats sacrificed to appease sky god
Nepal Airlines sacrificed two goats on the runway in front of a troublesome Boeing 757 in an offering to appease the Hindu sky god, Akash Bhairab, and put an end to the plan's faults.
The goats were slaughtered at Nepal's only international airport in Kathmandu in accordance with Hindu traditions, an official said.
Wild Hare Chase at Milan Airport
Milan’s Linate airport has been hit by a plague of hares. For months now the pesky critters have been cruising the runways, confusing the radar and getting under the wheels of planes (twice in the last fortnight alone).
Now airport officials have decided the time has come to organise a rout.
Superman Beware
Kryptonite, which robbed Superman of his powers, is no longer the stuff of comic books and films. The mineral has been been found in Jadar in Serbia by geologists and mineralogists from mining group Rio Tinto.
"I'm afraid it's not green and it doesn't glow either - although it will react to ultraviolet light by fluorescing a pinkish-orange," Dr Chris Stanley, a mineralogist at London's Natural History Museum.
told BBC News.
Giant Gypsum Crystals found in Mexican caves
With lengths over 11m, the giant gypsum crystals found in Mexico's Cueva de los Cristales are a great natural wonder. Researchers believe other dramatic caves await discovery in the Naica mine complex south-east of Chihuahua city
Freak Hailstones Hit Chinese
Hailstones the size of eggs have ravaged parts of southern China, killing 13 people. The hailstorms pelted five counties in Fujian province, on the southeast China seaboard, punching holes in thousands of homes and damaging power supply facilities.
A Sky Walk on Earth
The Skywalk is a U-shaped glass walkway that juts out 70ft over the edge of the GrandCanyon at 4,000ft above its floor.
Yesterday, a man with a head for heights, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, made the inaugural walk at the official unveiling. He described it as "magnificent - it felt wonderful. Not exactly floating on air but a wonderful vision - a truly magical view".
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
AN elite group of Native American trackers is joining the hunt for terrorists crossing Afghanistan's borders. The unit, the Shadow Wolves, has been recruited from several tribes, including the Navajo, Sioux, Lakota and Apache.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Scientists set sail in March on the newly launched research ship, the RRS James Cook, to investigate a massive "open wound" on the Earth's surface in the mid Atlantic ridge. The voyage can be followed online.
New Comet lights up skies in Southern Hemisphere
A comet discovered by a Scottish astronomer transformed southern hemisphere skies in January.
The McNaught Comet is one of very few comets that can be seen by the naked eye in daylight. It is around 140 million kilometres (87 million miles) from the Earth.
Surf's Up (and Up) at Bournemouth
A £1.4 million reef is to be built along Boscombe seafront in Dorset, off the west coast of England, to attract up to 10,000 surfers to the seaside town of Bournemouth each year. It is set to open in September 2007.
Did Climate Change end the Tang Dynasty?
Weak winter monsoon rains may have contributed to the decline of both China's Tang Dynasty and the Mayan civilisation in Mexico according to an article published in Nature (4 January).
Vast Ice Shelf collapses in Arctic
The Ayles ice shelf, more than 40 square miles in extent, has broken clear from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 500 miles south of the North Pole in the Canadian Arctic.
Chinese Freshwater Dolphin Extinct
The Chinese freshwater dolphin, the ‘baiji’, has been reported as extinct due to the pollution in the in the Yangtze river. A recent 6 week search of the 2000 mile river to save the dolphin was unable to find any surviving members of the species.
