New study on fossils from Madagascar by Italian and French paleontologists has uncovered a previously unknown Jurassic beast. The research is published in PeerJ. With deep and massive jaw bones and gigantic, serrated teeth – much like those of a Tyrannosaurus rex – Razanandrongobe sakalavae was undoubtedly a fearsome predator 165 million years ago. Nicknamed “Razana,” this large carnivore was …

A 52-year-old Ayr man is dead after his motorcycle crashed on Highway 407 on Sunday. The single-vehicle crash happened around 2:30 p.m. along Highway 407 near the Lake Ridge Road overpass. The rider was without vital signs when emergency crews arrived on scene, Ontario Provincial Police spokesperson Sgt. Kerry Schmidt says.

An iceberg the size of Delaware could break off Antarctica in a matter of hours or weeks, researchers with the British Project MIDAS wrote in its latest blog. Researchers monitoring the ice shelf report that from June 24 to June 27, the outer end of the iceberg started to accelerate to the fastest speeds ever recorded at this location — …

Researchers have recovered ancient DNA from one of the more puzzling species to have lived during the last Ice Age, a creature named Macrauchenia patachonica. In research published in Nature Communications, an international team devised a new way of looking at ancient mitochondrial DNA in order to unravel the mystery of Macrauchenia patachonica, a hoofed mammal thought to have weighed …

A man struck by a careening bus while walking down a street in the UK has been filmed collectedly rising and walking into a pub. CCTV video has emerged of a man being hit by a bus in England and then casually walking into a nearby pub. Fifty-three-year-old Simon Smith is seen walking across a quiet road in Berkshire, southern …

Scientists at The University of New Mexico have proven that supermassive black holes that orbit galaxies exist, and this could help tell us how galaxies form. UNM Department of Physics & Astronomy graduate student Karishma Bansal is the first-author on the paper, ‘Constraining the Orbit of the Supermassive Black Hole Binary 0402+379’, recently published in The Astrophysical Journal. She, along …

NASA was forced to repudiate viral reporting from several media outlets that the space agency was preparing to announce the discovery of alien life. Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate—who was heavily quoted in the Anonymous video—spoke out on Monday to confirm that NASA isn’t sitting on what is potentially the biggest space discovery ever. Contrary …

Special prosecutor has approved charges against Pavla Janeckova of Kelowna. Charges of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm have been approved against a woman who is said to have threated Premier Christy Clark and current Speaker of the House Steve Thomson. The B.C. Prosecution Service (BCPS) announced Tuesday that two charges of uttering threats had been approved against …

Scientists have discovered an ancient mass extinction event of large marine animals that was partially triggered by changes in the ocean that could endanger modern sea species. According to a new research led by Dr. Catalina Pimiento of the University of Zurich, big marine life may be more vulnerable to changes in the climate than previously known. The study – …

NASA is about to announce it has uncovered alien life, according to mysterious hacking group Anonymous. The internet collective posted on YouTube a video that said “NASA says aliens are coming!” Anonymous, the same unidentifiable amorphous keyboard jockeys that brought you online social justice warfare and a series of takedowns of corporate and government websites, now purportedly brings netizens the …

Three people, an adult and two children, are dead following a two-car collision late Sunday night in Mississauga, police say. It happened just before 11 p.m. Sunday on Winston Churchill Blvd. between North Service Rd. and the QEW. Two boys, aged four and 12, traveling in a vehicle with three other passengers were transported to hospital but later died. An …