By Michael Le Page We now know ichthyosaurs also targeted larger preyJOHN SIBBICK / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Don’t bite off more than you can chew, goes the saying. But one ancient ichthyosaur did just that. The 5-metre-long marine reptile has the body of a 4-metre-long animal in its stomach – but apparently injured its neck…
By Michael Marshall A transmission electron micrograph of a modern bacterium, Helicobacter pylori. This section shows a spherical body and several flagellaBIOMEDICAL IMAGING UNIT, SOUTHAM Some of the earliest microorganisms may have been able to move around under their own power using whip-like “tails”, according to a study of fossils from 3.4 billion years ago.…
By Michael Marshall An artist’s recreation of the Tully Monsterdotted zebra / Alamy A bizarre ancient creature that looks like a sci-fi reject may actually have been a backboned animal related to fish. The claim relies on chemical analysis of fossils of the creature. However, other palaeontologists remain cautious. The animal is called Tullimonstrum gregarium,…
A board member of the petrochemical giant Phillips 66 with ties to Joe Biden has donated the maximum allowable amount to his presidential campaign, and Biden's campaign recently paid $85,000 to a travel company linked to the donor, Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings from April show -- despite Biden's pledge "not to take contributions over $200 from oil, gas, and coal industry executives, lobbyists, and PACs."For…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has rightly made “radical transparency” the motto of his Department of Health and Human Services. HHS even has a page by that name. I think it is a good motto, and I want to help Secretary Kennedy and Acting FDA Commissioner Kyle Diamantas deliver on it in food safety, with two citizen petitions
Published: October 30, 2026, 10:16 pm Several reports of children choking have led to an FDA warning against Once Upon A Time snacks. The warning covers all flavors, quantities, lots and dates of Once Upon A Farm Tractor Wheels Organic, Toddler Soft-Baked Bars. The FDA has received several reports that describe infants ages 1.5 to
The FDA has cleared the interleukin (IL)-23 inhibitor tildrakizumab (Ilumya) for the treatment of active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in adults. Sun Pharma announced the approval on October 30. “As an IL-23 inhibitor administered exclusively by a healthcare provider, Ilumya is now an option for adults with active psoriatic arthritis who are unable to self-administer treatment