In 1999, a dinosaur bone was found on Japan’s Fukushima coast and left unstudied; in 2026, scientists identified it belonged to a 3-metre iguanodontian that lived 90 million years ago
Photo credit: Jstage.jst.go.jp A small dinosaur bone discovered in Fukushima, Japan, more than two decades ago has given scientists a new glimpse into the diversity of ancient life along East Asia’s coast.The fossil, found in 1999 and left largely…
ICE to provide body cameras, but policy allows footage release only in agency’s ‘best interests’
ICE to soon equip officers with body cameras. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is set to equip its field officers nationwide with body-worn cameras by the end of September, following growing scrutiny over fatal shootings involving immigration…
Indian man on death row in the US for killing wife, in-laws in 2019 seeks retrial, says his previous lawyers were bad
Indian man Gurpreet Singh, who is on death row for killing wife and in-laws, is seeking fresh trial in Ohio. In 2019, Gurpreet Singh, an Indian-origin truck driver in Ohio, called 911 and reported that his wife and her family had been killed. When cops…
Utah girl Emma Meline was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia days before Christmas; her 2-year-old sister became her perfect bone marrow match
Emma Meline (Image Credit: GoFundMe) A Utah family’s difficult medical journey took an emotional turn when young Emma Meline was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia just days before Christmas, and about two months later, the family learned that her…
Meet Costa Rica’s tiny ‘coffee frog,’ a nocturnal species found living among coffee shrubs
Image Credit: X/ @AFP News Agency A tiny nocturnal frog has been discovered in Costa Rica’s coffee-growing region. Researcher Wagner Chaves-Acuña told AFP that the newly identified species lives among coffee plantations and nearby waterways, according to…
Eggs thrown at Kosovo PM in parliament; House suspended amid political crisis
Kosovo’s parliament was suspended after opposition MP Time Kadrijaj threw eggs at acting PM Albin Kurti Kosovo’s parliament was suspended on Saturday after opposition lawmaker Time Kadrijaj threw eggs at acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti.The…
Major US university to hide letter grades for first-semester students, cites ‘mental health crisis’
University of Michigan. (AP Photo) A major US university is set to stop showing letter grades for first-semester freshmen in an effort to help students adjust to college life and address what it calls a growing mental health crisis among college-aged…
ICE arrests at airports: Immigration lawyers share these 6 tips if you are stopped, questioned or detained
ICE increased its presence at domestic airports leading to a sharp uptick in the number of daily arrests. As ICE arrests at domestic airports have seen a sharp uptick in recent weeks, the American Immigration Lawyers Association shared six tips for visa…
Inside Portugal’s 19th-century goat tower, where dwarf goats climb a spiral ramp to a three-storey home
A moth outbreak has killed off forests across Siberia, now the flammable wood is causing wildfires that humans are unable to contain
An insect outbreak has left Siberia’s forests dead while also transforming the region into a tinderbox where wildfires are now spreading beyond human control. The trees burning across Krasnoyarsk this year were, in a lot of cases, already dead. Not…