British conservationists have discovered the first breeding population of an “incredibly rare” turtle in India. The University of Portsmouth led a team that used local knowledge to find the nesting site of the “secretive” Cantor’s giant softshell turtle, which is native to
An asteroid flew past Earth on Monday closer than the distance to the moon after only being detected by scientists last week. The hurtling space rock, dubbed 2024 CY1, is the size of a double decker bus and potentially weighs 100s of tonnes.
Two bodies have been found in the River Thames less than a mile apart, according to the Metropolitan Police. This comes after the force announced that it believed it was likely that suspected Clapham acid attacker Abdul Shokoor Ezedi had entered the
A sickly litter of puppies were discovered dumped inside a field during brutally cold weather with disfigurements and covered in mange. The seven spaniels were recently found cowering in a Kent field infested with mites and suffering severe leg deformities. New Hope
Four bodies have been found at a house near Norwich after police were alerted by a member of the public, officers have confirmed. Police forced entry into the property in Allan Bedford Crescent, near Norwich, and found the bodies of four people inside.
The mysterious lost city, which was uncovered in eastern Ecuador, was built around 2,500 years ago. Scientists who excavated the area claim that hundreds of thousands of people could have lived there at any one time. The indigenous Upano people are thought
A controversial research group previously linked to experiments in Wuhan reported the discovery of a new virus found in bats in Thailand. New York-based EcoHealth Alliance, headed by Dr Peter Daszak, described the new discovery during a meeting of the World Health
A man was running on a Liverpool beach when he spotted what looked like a sea monster on the shoreline. The 15-foot creature was found in the early morning of January 5 by Stephen Davies, who had been out on his daily
A start-up business from South Africa collected a huge windfall after unearthing a rare resource underground in a field it was conducting experiments on. Renergen, self-described as an emerging integrated renewable energy producer, purchased the rights of the grounds for approximately 79p
An amateur fossil hunter has raged at the BBC, saying he is “appalled” at being airbrushed out of a David Attenborough documentary. Respected palaeontologists have also called the oversight “inexcusable” and an “injustice” after Phil Jacobs, 69, wasn’t named for finding the