An Idaho hospital is paying $300,000 to move an 800,000-pound giant sequoia tree

Rebecca Boone/AP BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A massive Idaho tree that grew over more than a century from a seedling sent by a noted naturalist has been uprooted and is poised to travel about two blocks Sunday to a new location. David Cox of tree-moving company Environmental Design said Saturday the 10-story sequoia is doing […]

300,000 year-old “early Homo sapiens” sparks debate over evolution

Philipp Gunz Until this week, the earliest known fossils of Homo sapiens were about 200,000 years old. But two recent papers in Nature have obliterated that date with a report of 300,000 year-old skull fragments from five individuals found in Morocco. The researchers who discovered the fossils call them “early Homo sapiens.” But other scientists say […]

BA faces £300,000 bill after lack of ‘bog roll’ and ‘wrong headphones’ led to 5-hour delay

Last week saw BA fork out compensation to passengers after a mouse on board an aircraft meant a San Francisco-bound flight from London Heathrow departed four hours late. Now, another messy situation has left the flagship carrier with another steep bill. A shortage of toilet roll and the “wrong kind of headphones” on board a […]