D’Arros Island in Seychelles has recorded a sharp rise in its Wedge-tailed Shearwater breeding population after rats were eradicated in 2003. Researchers counted 2,768 breeding pairs in 2016 and 2,406 in 2021, compared with about 254 pairs recorded in 2009. The colony also spread across a larger area, while breeding burrow density increased during the…

There were many subsidiary burials around the tombs and enclosures. (Representational photo: La Nacion) Researchers have found new evidence that some people buried around the tombs of Egypt’s First Dynasty kings may have been deliberately killed after the rulers died. The finding published in journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, comes from a fresh examination of…