Even the largest dinosaurs of all time started their lives breaking out of small eggs. Now, a rare fossil of a baby titanosaur suggests that once these precocious youngsters hatched, they were on their own in a harsh landscape.The bones, found in 70- to 66-million-year-old rock in Madagascar, belonged to a long-necked, herbivorous dinosaur named Rapetosaurus krausei. This species was a titanosaur, the group that includes the largest known dinosaurs, as well as celebrities like Apatosaurus—the sauropod formerly known as Brontosaurus.
Saturday, 23 April 2016
London Marathon: 35 years of change in 26.2 miles
Compared with what it has become, the very first London marathon was a tentative affair. It took place in 1981. Greater London’s population had reached of 6.6 million, with inner city areas particularly hit by a decades-long exodus to the suburbs and beyond. Thederegulation of financial services, which would transform the capital’s economy and its people-pulling power, was still two years away.
Panama Papers: Police raid Mossack Fonseca law firm
PANAMANIAN investigators have raided a property used by Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of a massive leak of offshore financial data, an official from the local prosecutor’s office says.The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a statement with more details would be sent later.
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