Bones

Fee-fi-fo-fum! it may not make a great deal of grammatical sense, but this phrase is certain to conjure up mental images of magic beans, rampant beanstalks and one very angry giant. Colossal-sized hum

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A bird’s proteinaceous plumage comes from the same source as our hair

A team of scientists from the University of Portsmouth and London’s Natural History Museum has identified a new species of dinosaur after re-examining 125-million-year-old fossils found on the Isle of

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