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DNA from skeletons ‘challenges perceptions and understanding of ancient England’

Ancient DNA extracted from skeletons in burial sites across England shows evidence of mass migration from Europe and movement of people from as far as West Africa, challenging perceptions that English ancestors lived in small elite groups, ...

06 Oct 2022 at 01:01

Fossil shows starfish relative ‘lost its skeleton’ half a billion years ago

The fossil of a 510-million-year-old relative of modern starfish and sea urchins has revealed new insights into the early evolution of a hard skeleton, scientists have said. Researchers from Spain, the UK and USA – including experts from ...

02 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Sport

Curlers keep GB gold run going but team falls short of 2022 Winter medals target

Curling saved an otherwise disappointing Winter Olympics for Great Britain as Eve Muirhead and Bruce Mouat led their rinks to gold and silver medals respectively. Those were the only British medals in Beijing, a step back from ...

21 Feb 2022 at 13:25

Sport

On this day in 2018: Lizzy Yarnold successfully defends Olympic skeleton title

Lizzy Yarnold overcame dizzy spells to win a second successive women’s skeleton gold medal and become the first Briton to defend a Winter Olympics title on this day in 2018. Britain won two medals in the same event for the ...

17 Feb 2022 at 07:25

Sport

Today at the Winter Olympics: Skeleton woe for GB and mixed fortunes for curlers

Great Britain suffered skeleton misery on day seven of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Laura Deas and Brogan Crowley were both outside the top 20 after the first two runs of an event which concludes on Saturday, meaning ...

11 Feb 2022 at 18:25

Family

Mum who has been fascinated by death since she was 10 weds a man who races hearses and they’re already planning a terrifying Halloween

A ‘Halloween obsessed’ former embalmer who married a hearse-driving junkyard owner is already planning how to decorate their home on October 31 – and her spooky plans include a 12-foot high skeleton and four real ...

01 Sept 2022 at 08:22

Arts & Entertainment

Prehistoric human skeleton found in cave

A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico’s Caribbean coast. Octavio del Rio ...

14 Sept 2022 at 23:33

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14 Sept 2022 at 23:33

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14 Sept 2022 at 22:33

Skeleton found on north Cornish coast may be 18th century shipwrecked sailor

The remains of a human skeleton discovered on a footpath on the north Cornish coast may have belonged to a shipwrecked sailor from the 18th or 19th centuries. The discovery at Trevone and overlooking ...

29 Nov 2022 at 15:54

‘Human bones’ garden find was toy pirate skeleton with parrot

A pile of “human bones” reported to police by a concerned member of the public turned out to be a toy plastic pirate skeleton – complete with parrot and a hook for a hand. Derbyshire Police officers ...

05 Apr 2023 at 16:31

Sport

On this day in 2010 – Amy Williams claims skeleton gold at Winter Olympics

Amy Williams tamed Canada’s notorious Whistler track on this day in 2010 to claim skeleton gold and become Britain’s first individual Winter Olympic gold medallist in 30 years. On a course where ...

20 Feb 2024 at 06:00

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