Science
Killer whales use sonic ‘flashlight’ to target prey hundreds of miles away
New research reveals how whales, dolphins and porpoises let out ultrasonic clicks in narrow beams to help them find food hiding in the murky depths
Pancreatic cancer is killing more Europeans than ever and death rates are rising
Number of deaths has almost doubled in the past three decades killing over 9,000 Britons
Neanderthals ‘no more violent than modern humans’
A comparison of more than 200 skulls dating back up to 80,000 years found similar levels of head injuries in both groups
In 30 years demands for food on Earth will push planet to limit…because people will be too fat
By 2050 humankind will struggle to feed a population of roughly nine billion people without missing targets to curb climate change and save the rainforests, a report said.
The world’s oldest respiratory system has been unearthed in Herefordshire…and it’s VERY old
It has been named the 'Breath of Life' by the British led team of international scientists who discovered it.
What could be the oldest footprints ever have been discovered in the Grand Canyon
They were made by one of the first reptiles that ever lived and it had a strange "line-dancing gait"
A male and female shellfish dating back more than 400 million years has been discovered
Fossilised remains of the tiny crustaceans, measuring just 1 mm long, were unearthed in southern Japan.
Alan Turing’s theory explains how shark scales are patterned
A system proposed by legendary codebreaker Alan Turing more than 60 years ago can explain the patterning of tooth-like scales on sharks
The revolutionary device that helps frogs regenerate their legs
Scientists have designed the 'bioreactor' that can induce partial hindlimb regeneration in adult aquatic African clawed frogs by "kick-starting" tissue repair at the amputation site