Rätselhaftes Ende - scinexx de
scinexx.de - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scinexx.de Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Covid catch-up programme unveiled for Bedford schoolchildren
bedfordtoday.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bedfordtoday.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In a genetic surprise, ancient DNA shows the closest family members of an extinct bird known as the Haitian cave-rail are not in the Americas, but Africa and the South Pacific, uncovering an unexpected link between Caribbean bird life and the Old World.
Like many animals unique to the Caribbean, cave-rails became extinct soon after people settled the islands. The last of three known West Indian species of cave-rails – flightless, chicken-sized birds – vanished within the past 1,000 years. Florida Museum of Natural History researchers sought to resolve the group’s long-debated ancestry by analyzing DNA from a fossil toe bone of the Haitian cave-rail, Nesotrochis steganinos. But they were unprepared for the results: The genus Nesotrochis is most closely related to the flufftails, flying birds that live in sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar and New Guinea, and the adzebills, large, extinct, flightless birds native to New Zealand.
Cynthia Estrada-Lopez plead guilty to homicide by child abuse in Lexington County Court
Credit: Lexington County Solicitor s Office
Lilly Lopez, 4, a victim of child abuse, murdered by her mother. Author: WLTX Updated: 11:17 AM EDT April 5, 2021
LEXINGTON, S.C. A Lexington woman has been sentenced to 38 years for killing her 4-year-old daughter.
Cynthia Estrada-Lopez, 28, plead guilty to homicide by child abuse in the murder of Lilly Lopez in Lexington County Court on April 1. Estrada-Lopez will not be eligible for parole.
According to records presented in court, the Lexington County 911 Center received a call at 9:05 pm on July 31, 2017, to the home of Estrada-Lopez and her husband, David Steadman, on Nazareth Road. First responders found Lilly unresponsive on the living room floor and began CPR. Lilly was pronounced dead after arrival at the Lexington Medical Center. The law enforcement investigation by the Lexington County Sheriff’s D