An article published in the journal “Journal of Biogeography” describes a research that led to recreate the possible outline of the migrations of dinosaurs during the Mesozoic era and concluded that there was particularly a very important one from today’s Europe in the Cretaceous, between 146 and 100 million years ago. These results were obtained by applying for the first time network theory to paleontology.
An article published in the journal “Current Biology” describes a research on the reasons for the survival of primitive birds the great extinction that struck the dinosaurs. According to a team led by Derek Larson, a paleontologist at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Alberta, Canada, at the end of the Cretaceous the conditions became such that winged dinosaurs and carnivorous birds became extinct while the ancestors of modern birds that ate seeds survived.
The novel “Pashazade” by Jon Courtenay Grimwood was published for the first time in 2001. It’s the first novel in the Arabesk trilogy.
The life of Ashraf al-Mansur called Raf or ZeeZee changes when a woman claiming to be his aunt tells him that his real father is the Emir of Tunis and helps him get out of the prison where he was locked up for murder. When he arrives in El Iskandryia (Alexandria of Egypt), in the Ottoman Empire, where he reaches Nafisa, his alleged aunt, he finds himself with the prospect of an arranged marriage with Zara, a girl never seen.
Overall, the outlook for Raf’s future is good but he calls off his wedding to Zara and a few days later Nafisa is murdered and he’s among the suspects. Forced to take care of Hani, a niece he somehow “inherited” from Nafisa, Raf must handle himself among the power play and the secrets he discovers in the city to understand what’s behind the murder.
Yesterday the BBC announced that the actress Pearl Mackie will be the new companion of the Doctor in the tenth season of the TV show “Doctor Who”. The announcement consisted of a short scene in which the new character together with the 12th Doctor were being chased by a group of Daleks and overlay announced the new companion, whose name is Bill.
