The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest is one of the two great military humiliations in the glittered history of the Roman Empire. Between 15,000 and 20,000 Roman soldiers and their commanders, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus, a general under the emperor Augustus, were destroyed by Germanic warriors in a series of guerrilla-style attacks. The soldiers … Read more
The Indus Valley civilisation was wiped out by climate change, a new study claims. What caused the demise of the once-great civilisation is a long-standing mystery, but researchers tracking historical monsoon patterns may have found an answer. It is thought the society, which existed at the same time as ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, thrived in … Read more
Human hunters were not responsible for killing off the woolly rhino, according to a new study of the extinct creature’s genome that found climate change is to blame. Experts from Stockholm University sequenced ancient DNA taken from 14 woolly rhinoceros fossils to find out the state of their population near the end of their existence. … Read more
Thousands of coronavirus deaths ‘will be wiped off the government’s official toll’ after urgent review into counting fiasco that meant no-one in England could EVER recover By Connor Boyd Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 08:30 BST, 6 August 2020 | Updated: 08:35 BST, 6 August 2020 Thousands of coronavirus deaths are going to be wiped … Read more
Travel stocks hammered by holiday chaos: £1.5bn wiped off by second wave fears Investors took flight from airlines and tour operators after the Government removed Spain from the quarantine-free list Thousands of holidaymakers cancelled trips to Spain as well as countries such as France and Germany amid concerns they could be next By Tom Witherow … Read more
British butterflies are at risk of being wiped out by intensive farming as conservation measures are failing to protect some of the country’s rarest species, a study found. Species under threat include Duke of Burgundy, the Dingy skipper and the High Brown Fritillary, researchers have warned. Conservation efforts around the margins of agriculture are not … Read more
Shellfish could be wiped out as Arctic Ocean acidifies due to climate change, scientists fear Ocean expected to absorb more carbon dioxide than expected in next 80 years Increasing acidity of water could wipe out organisms like shellfish and urchins Acid can dissolve their calcified skeletons and shells and could affect food chain By Daily … Read more
Rock samples taken from under the Chicxulub crater left by the dinosaur-killing asteroid 66 million years ago could hold the key to the origin of life on Earth. A team of researchers found that the impact of the city-sized space rock produced a network of warm waterways under the crater, which is in the Yucatán Peninsula … Read more
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago crashed into Earth at ‘the deadliest possible angle’, researchers have concluded. The giant impacter struck what is today Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula at around 60 degrees — maximising the production of climate-altering greenhouse gases. The global disaster caused by the space rock — which was … Read more
Coronavirus pandemic could be over in the UK by September 30: Scientific model predicts virus will continue its steady decline with NO second wave Singapore University of Technology plotted data from the Covid-19 pandemic United States will extinguish the infection by November 11, the team discovered The model predicts the trajectory of the spread of … Read more