Bumper dino haul
Palaeontologists in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert have unearthed a record 67 dinosaurs in one week. The fossils were mainly those of psittacosaurus, and Jack Horner of Montana State University and his team now have 100 such fossils to study. Psittacosaurus, the “parrot lizard”, was a common, beaked plant-eater that lived 120 million years ago.
First female space tourist
The first female space tourist lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday. The Soyuz capsule is carrying Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-born US citizen; NASA’s Michael Lopez-Alegria; and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin. It will dock with the International…
