Meet the dog on course to become Britain’s oldest – thanks to a diet of McDonald’s. Pampered pooch Titch has just turned 20 – around 100 in human years – just a year behind the oldest pooch in the UK. But despite his OAP status he loves nothing more than a Maccy D’s and watching … Read more
A 101-year-old grandfather has become the oldest person in the country to beat coronavirus after a two-week battle with the deadly illness. Keith Watson, who was being treated at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, Worcestershire, was discharged earlier today. It comes as the latest figures show there are currently 65,077 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the … Read more
Grandfather, 101, becomes the oldest person in the country to beat coronavirus after a two-week battle with the deadly illness Keith Watson was treated at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, Worcestershire He was discharged earlier today after two-week battle with Covid-19 Latest figures show there are 65,077 confirmed cases in UK with 7,978 deaths By … Read more
A 104-year-old Italian woman who survived the 1918 Spanish Flu has become the world’s oldest person to survive the coronavirus. Ada Zanusso fell ill at her nursing home in Biella in northern Italy on March 17, eight days after the Government imposed a lockdown on the country. She was tested positive for Covid-19 after experiencing a … Read more
The oldest genetic material ever extracted from a human has revealed a ‘sister group’ of hominins related to Homo sapiens, Denisovans and Neanderthals. Ancient proteins in the teeth of a fossil were discovered, analysed and dated to reveal the secrets of its owner. It was found this primitive human, a member of the species Homo antecessor, … Read more
A great grandmother-of-seven aged 94 is believed to have become the oldest woman in the UK to beat coronavirus, while an 82-year-old grandfather has also returned home after fighting off the killer infection. Joy, who has asked for her surname to not be revealed, is back home after battling the infection for nine days in … Read more
An 108-year-old great-grandmother is believed to be the oldest person to die from the coronavirus in the UK. Hilda Churchill survived two world wars and the Spanish flu but tragically passed away on Saturday – less than a day after she tested positive for the virus. She had been in isolation at her care home in … Read more
A worm-like creature that lived more than half a billion years ago has been discovered which is the ancestor for almost all living creatures. The creature, called Ikaria wariootia, lived around 555 million years ago and was found in Australia. It is the earliest known bilaterian, a creature with both a front and back, two symmetrical sides … 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
Meet the ‘Wonderchicken’: Scientists identify the oldest fossil ever found of a modern bird thought to be an ancestor of today’s hens and ducks 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