Alaska State Troopers made a fugitive from justice arrest as a result of a traffic stop in Southeast Alaska on Thursday according to the trooper dispatch. At 7:18 om on Thursday, troopers conducted a traffic stop on a silver Dodge pickup at approximately mile 7 of the North Tongass Highway. When they did so, they […]
A species of bone-eating worm that was believed to have evolved in conjunction with whales has been dated back to prehistoric times when it fed on the carcasses of giant marine reptiles. Scientists at Plymouth University found that Osedax – popularised as the ‘zombie worm’ – originated at least 100 million years ago, and subsisted […]
Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine, collaborating with a multicenter team of U.S. and Venezuelan researchers, have discovered the most diverse collection of bacteria yet in humans among an isolated tribe of Yanomami Amerindians in the remote Amazonian jungles of Venezuela. Bacterial diversity in the Yanomami, previously unexposed to antibiotics or industrialized diets, was […]
Although only a handful of bodies have been retrieved from the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, as many as 700 are believed to have perished in the weekend sinking of a migrant ship carrying nationals from Egypt, Syria, Sudan and Eritrea. The vessel is believed to have capsized because of migrants aboard the vessel rushing […]