Scientists have identified the earliest known evidence of spider fangs in a 518 million-year-old fossil recovered from southern China, tracing the origin of one of the animal kingdom’s most feared biological tools back to a small marine creature that lived long before spiders existed. The fossil belongs to a species called Urokodia aequalis, examined by…

Iran launches ‘eye-for-an-eye’ operation after fresh US strikes Iran launched what it described as an “eye-for-an-eye” military operation against the United States on Monday, targeting American military facilities across the Gulf after fresh US strikes hit Iranian military infrastructure over the weekend. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they struck US military facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait,…

A $295 million Malibu mansion designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando was quietly on the market when rapper Kanye West arrived unannounced and stayed for four days, according to a new biography of his former wife, Kim Kardashian. An October 2026 report by the New York Post drew on journalist Jonathan Van Meter’s…

China’s long-running effort to restore the degraded Loess Plateau has revealed a difference between forests planted by people and those allowed to regenerate naturally. Researchers spent 18 years monitoring four forest types in the region, comparing plantations of Pinus tabuliformis, Platycladus orientalis and Robinia pseudoacacia with a natural secondary forest. The results showed that the…

Photo credit: Stuart Walmsley/The Guardian When Susan Downes bought an old farmhouse in York, Western Australia, she had imagined a quiet life in the countryside, with a small garden to look after. Instead, she found herself the owner of a 200-hectare property, including a hill where old native trees had survived more than a century…