Frozen fur
Japan plans to put the first complete frozen mammoth on display in just over a year. Organisers of the Expo 2005 world exposition in Aichi prefecture signed an agreement on 16 January to excavate a woolly mammoth in Sakha, Russia. So far, only the head, tusks and left forefoot have been unearthed from the permafrost.
Cot-death rethink
Mothers should not be convicted of murdering their children solely on the basis of some experts’ opinion that it is unlikely for more than one child in the same family to die of cot death (SIDS), the UK’s attorney general ruled…
