An international team of scientists has recovered and analyzed partial mitochondrial genomes from 1,300-1,400-year-old specimens of Voay robustus, a recently extinct species of ‘horned’ crocodile that lived in Madagascar. *** Read the rest of this article: http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/voay-robustus-evolutionary-history-09598.html
1719: Robinson Crusoe By Mick Ferris, Press Association, AP, UPI, calendar.songfacts.com, classicbands.com and thisdayinmusic.com 1284: Birth of Edward II at Caernarfon Castle, Wales. 1507: German geographer and mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller published a book in which he named the newly discovered continent of the New World "America" after the man he mistakenly thought had discovered it, Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci. 1599: Oliver Cromwell is born in Huntingdon. 1607: The Dutch fleet beats the Spanish Portuguese fleet at the Battle f Gibraltar. 1644: The last Ming emperor, Chongzhen hangs himself from a tree on Jing Mountain, Peking, rather than be captured by forces of Li Zicheng. 1660: English Convention Parliament meets and votes to restore Charles II. 1684: Patent granted for the thimble. 1719: The popular novel “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe was first published. It examines the life of a man trapped on a desert island. (From Prof. Frank McDonough@FXMC1957) 1742: E...
Cancer isn't just a modern-day affliction. A new archaeological analysis suggests malignant growths in medieval Britain were not as rare as we once thought. *** Read the rest of this article: https://www.sciencealert.com/analysis-of-medieval-skeletons-reveals-a-cancer-rate-far-higher-than-expected
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