A tiny 13,300-year-old bone carving of bird unearthed at a rubbish tip has been hailed as ‘China’s oldest work of art’ by an international team of scientists. The small bird carving, recovered from Lingjing, in Henan, China, is the oldest instance of East Asian three-dimensional art ever discovered. The ‘exceptionally preserved’ statuette, made of bone … Read more
Is he the most disgusting Big Brother contestant ever? Former star reveals one of her housemates bathed in the sink and urinated in the garden during her time on the show By Kylie Walters For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:55 BST, 10 June 2020 | Updated: 06:39 BST, 10 June 2020 Big Brother viewers flocked … Read more
Nesting bald eagles spotted in Cape Cod for the first time since 1905, signs the once endangered animal is beginning to return to Massachusetts MassWildlife reports a bald eagle nest was spotted in Cape Code The nest is the first seen in the region in 115 years, and one of 70 across the state The … Read more
The eagle has been landed on! Cheeky black drongo bird appears to touch down on the back of a flying eagle owl Photographer Mayur Shinde, 41, captured the series of shots when she was visiting Jaisalmer in India The birdwatcher photographed an Indian eagle owl as it was gliding through the clear blue sky A … Read more
A white woman dubbed ‘Central Park Karen’ has been fired from her senior position at a New York investment firm after a video showed her calling the cops on an African-American man who asked her to put a leash on her dog. Amy Cooper, 41, was terminated from her job as head of insurance investment … Read more
Bird of prey persecution crimewave: RSPB is overrun with reports of kites, buzzards and owls being illegally killed during the coronavirus lockdown RSPB has been inundated with reports of unlawful killings of birds of prey Targeted bird in the last six weeks include buzzards, red kites and goshawks Charity says criminals are using the lockdown to … Read more
Covidiot ‘tries to run over’ swan in a speedboat and keeps driving in circles around the distressed bird Speedboat was seen circling the swan on a lake in Little Paxton, Cambridgeshire Olivia Satchwell, 18, from St Neots, filmed the driver ‘trying to hit the swan’ She believes he was aiming to hit it and circled … Read more
Rare albino robin has been left without a partner and ‘unable to breed for FOUR years’ because she is unrecognisable to males due to the lack of a prominent red breast Entomologist and birdwatcher John Walters has been watching the bird for years The animal lives in Devon and is not thought to have had … Read more
Belgravia Rating: Celebrity Murder Mystery Rating: How outdated it all seems, the emphasis on good breeding and the reverence shown to sons and nephews of earls in the Victorian London of Belgravia (ITV). It wouldn’t happen now, eh? But the aristocracy of tellyland is just as convoluted and interwoven as the family trees in Burke’s … Read more
Meet the ‘Wonderchicken’: Scientists discover the oldest fossil of a modern bird — an ancestor of hens and ducks that waddled alongside the dinosaurs The Wonderchicken — or ‘Asteriornis’ — lived around 67 million years ago According to the researchers it resembles a ‘mash-up’ of a duck and a chicken It was a small bird … Read more