Months ago and says it is investigating. Our Political Correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports. Honesty needs to start now. The lack of Clarity Needs to stop. Mark menzies. Of Clarity Needs to stop. Mark menzies, this of Clarity Needs to stop. Mark menzies, this was of Clarity Needs to stop. Mark menzies, this was him of Clarity Needs to stop. Mark menzies, this was him last i of Clarity Needs to stop. Mark menzies, this was him last week urging transparency about the impact locally of a wind farm being built offshore. The allegation about his own behaviour, first reported by the times newspaper, is that last december at three oclock in the morning he called his former Campaign Manager and said bad people had locked him in a flat, adding that he needed £5,000 as a matter of life or death. It is claimed Campaign Donations were later used to cover the payment, and also that he has received £14,000 to cover medical bills. The bbc has not been able to speak to him for a comment but in a
A massive jawbone found by a father-daughter fossil-collecting duo on a beach belonged to a newfound species that's likely the largest known marine reptile to swim in Earth's oceans.
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cheerio to it. this gigantic ichthyosaur will soon go to its new home on public display at the bristol museum and art gallery. georgina rannard, bbc news, swindon. australia is suffering an infestation of fire ants, with a potentially devastating impact on the country s health and agriculture. the fire ants are originally from south america but are thought to have entered australia 20 years ago in shipping containers, and can kill people and livestock. phil mercer has the story. sniffer dogs are on the front line in australia s fight against a formidable invader. fire ants attack as a swarm. they are a danger to people, pets, livestock and wildlife. they lock their jaws onto their victims skin and inject venom through a spike on their abdomen. their sting causes
so this piece ofjawbone would have come from an animal around the size of a dolphin? indeed, yes. and this piece ofjawbone is from the giant ichthyosaur? from the giant, indeed. so you can really see just how big this animal was. you can see the difference. paul de la salle dug the first piece out of a somerset beach in 2016, and then four years later, with the help of other fossil hunters, he found more. scientists now say it was a giant ichthyosaur, living alongside the dinosaurs and probably eating squid, and it may have been bigger than a blue whale, the largest animal ever to have lived. this ichthyosaur lived about 202 million years ago right at a time when there was a major extinction event. what this major extinction event led to was the eradication, the extinction, of these giant ichthyosaurs. after years in paul s garage, it s finally time to say goodbye. i ve come to know it almost, i ve studied it in such intense detail, that it will be sad to say