Study reveals what really killed the dinosaurs

Dinosaurs were prehistoric egg-laying reptiles that went extinct millions of years ago, but their survivors still live among us

A fossilised jawbone found by a University of Portsmouth student is from a newly identified species of prehistoric mammal. Undergraduate Benjamin Weston, 22, unearthed the fossil during a field trip t

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I just read Holly McHugh’s Q&A ‘What is the birthday effect?’ (March 2024, p83). It made me wonder, if birthday deaths are statistically higher – in part, because of alcohol consumption and terminally