Dinosaur diagnosed with severe arthritis - 70 million years after its death

Researchers have diagnosed a dinosaur with ‘severe’ arthritis - 70 million years after its death. Scientists led by a researcher from the University of Manchester analysed a fossilised elbow joint from a hadrosaur type of dinosaur and concluded it must have endured considerable suffering before it died. It’s believed to be the first ever recorded account of septic arthritis in dinosaurs. Hadrosaurs were plant-eating, duck-billed dinosaurs common in parts of Europe, Asia, and North America and ranged in size from 10ft to 40ft long. There are many different types of named dinosaur within the family.-read more

Diary reveals Hitler’s henchman Heinrich Himmler enjoyed a back rub before killings… and nearly fainted when victim’s brain spattered on his clothes

IT could be any businessman’s desk diary, with its neatly typed lists of mundane appointments, travel arrangements and lunch meetings. But Heinrich Himmler’s business was genocide. The former chicken farmer was the head of the SS, put in charge of the Holocaust byAdolf Hitler and the creator of the system of extermination camps where millions of people were murdered.

His office diaries, lost for 71 years, have now been discovered lying in a Russian military archive.

And the sheer banality of the entries provides a chilling insight into the life of a doting father who started each day with a massage before heading off to organise the nitty-gritty of mass murder.-read more

Cannabis cavemen: Did our ancestors smoke weed back in the Stoned Age?

Scientists have discovered a tribe of modern-day hunter gatherers smoked cannabis to ward off parasites - suggesting ancient humans may also have had a taste for the high life. The Aka people are a pygmy tribe from the Congo Basin, living a life of foraging which is little different from our ancestors. But more than half of the men have a cannabis habit which would put Snoop Doggy Dogg to shame. "In the same way we have a taste for salt, we might have a taste for psychoactive plant toxins, because these things kill parasites," said Dr. Edward Hagen, who published a report on his research in the American Journal of Human Biology. He found tribespeople who used cannabis had a lower rate of infection from parasitic worms, suggesting they "unconsciously" used the drug medicinally-read more

orca in scotland.

picture of a killer whale -okca - which was one of a pod trying to hunt eider ducks off shetland,scotland.

7ft shark in pembrokeshire

2 fishermen managed to almost reel in a 7ft porbeagle shark -normally spotted at sea-estimated weight 15 st .their had to let it go due to its size .

US skydiver jumps without parachute into net from 25,000ft

American Luke Aikins has become the first person to jump from 25,000 ft (7,620m) without a parachute, landing safely in a net.

Mr Aikins - who has more than 18,000 jumps under his belt - fell dead centre into the 100x100ft net in Simi Valley, southern California.

During the two-minute fall aired live on Fox television, the 42-year-old reached the speed of 120mph (193km/h).

To loud cheers, he climbed out of the net and hugged his wife and young son.-read more see video

Black holes may be 'back doors' to other parts of the universe, researchers claim

Deep inside of a black hole lies a region known as the gravitational singularity, where space-time curves toward infinity, and no matter passing through can survive – or so it’s been thought.

In a new study, researchers suggest there may instead be a way out through a wormhole at the centre of the black hole, which acts as a ‘back door.’

By this theory, anything traveling through the black hole would be ‘spaghettified,’ or stretched to the extreme, but returned back to its normal size when it emerges in a different region of the universe.-read more