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Towards the end of the dinosaurs reign the Earth tipped over on its side before righting itself, new evidence suggests.

The international team of scientists bet that paleomagnetic data from Cretaceous limestones in Italy would provide a clear confirmation.

Hold on to your hats, because scientists have found more evidence that Earth tips over from time to time. We know that the continents are moving

The Earth didn’t physically stand still in “The Day the Earth Stood Still” but it did spin backwards when Superman reversed time. Those are both fiction, but scientists now have solid evidence that the Earth flipped on its side and then flipped back into place at least once. We’re still here so it didn’t destroy... Read more »

Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up “It has been a rollercoaster of emotions for me.” Today marks the first anniversary of Ross Mitchell’s Lockdown Life photography project, in which he captures portraits of people with their four-legged companions. Agnes Widley as photographed by Ross. Based in Kinross, the 41-year-old has captured around 2,500 portraits since he began on April 1 last year. He walks around...

  PORT ALBERNI, B.C. -- The owner of a Sproat Lake restaurant that originally wasnt going to open for the season due to the pandemic says pleas from customers and an innovative idea are what allowed the business to open its doors and flourish.  "It was our original plan that we werent going to open at all and a few of our loyal customers came to us and said, ‘Could you please open? We really want you guys to be open, we really enjoy coming out in the summer,’" says Drinkwaters Lakeside...

A KIND schoolgirl is using pedal power to raise funds to honour the late daughter of her rugby coach. Greenock Wanderers player Ailidh Howie is cycling 100km during the month of February in aid of Neuroblastoma UK, a charity supporting children who are battling the rare cancer. The 11-year-old is coached by Ross Mitchell, who lost his little girl Rosie Veronica to it. She wanted to mark the second anniversary of Rosies passing by doing something kind. The Moorfoot Primary pupil is par...

Aberdeen nightclubs: Did you hang out in any of these popular venues? Updated: 29/01/2021, 6:00 pm © ABERDEEN JOURNALS A scene from the Ministry in 2002. Nightclubs are out of bounds so we dug through our vast archives to bring you these epic photos of fun nights out in Aberdeen. It’s been 10 months since nightclubs in Scotland turned off the music, shut down the lights and closed their doors. Some people have described the venues as “unfortunate casualties” of coronavirus with operators...

Share In the next 200 million years, Eurasia and the Americas will collide to form the supercontinent Amasia, according to a model of tectonic plate motion. Nicolle R. Fuller/Science Source What might Earth’s next supercontinent look like? New study provides clues Jan. 21, 2021 , 10:30 AM From Columbia to Rodinia to Pangaea, Earth has seen a few supercontinents come and go in its ancient past. Now, researchers theorize that these giant landmasses form in regular cycles, about once eve...

Updated: January 12, 2021, 7:15 pm © DCT Media Andrew Taylor admitted punching a friend in the face at McDonalds in Reform Street and remonstrating with police. A church volunteer who knocked out a pal who bit his finger while trying to chomp into a McDonald’s burger also launched a half-naked tirade towards police. Andrew Taylor, 50, briefly knocked Bruce Wilkinson unconscious after punching him in the Reform Street restaurant in 2019. The drunken pair had spent the night in several pubs in...