Huge hoard of dinosaur eggs discovered!

IT might sound like something straight from Jurassic Park, but dozens of fossilised dinosaurs eggs have been discovered by builders carrying out road works in China.

The remarkable discovery of 43 eggs was made by construction workers in the city of Heyuan, which is aptly nicknamed ‘the hometown of the dinosaur’.

Speaking to Chinese media, local archaeologist Du Yanli explained that 19 of the eggs were found intact, and the largest had an impressive diameter of 13cm.

He added that the city is rife for dinosaur discoveries, and more than 13,000 fossilised eggs have been discovered there in the last two decades — landing the city a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the largest collection of dinosaur eggs.

The ultimate power plant!

FORGET high electricity bills, you can soon charge your phone, tablet or other devices by simply plugging them into your household plants.

Engineers from Chile have developed a USB charger that harnesses energy from soil and converts it into power for mobile devices. The prototype of the device, E-Kaia, was built by Evelyn Aravena, Camila Rupcich and Carolina Guerrero.

It works when a so-called biocircuit is buried in the soil, while a connected USB output sits above the plant pot. During photosynthesis, a plant produces organic material that helps it to grow. Around the roots, naturally occurring micro-organisms break down these organic compounds to generate energy for this growth, but some electrons are released as a by-product.

Sunlight enters the plant’s chloroplasts and the water is split into oxygen, protons and electrons. The biocircuit features an electrode that captures electrons and harvests them into a form of electricity. And because not all of the electrons are needed, harvesting them doesn’t impact the plant. According to E-Kaia, the technology can output up to five volts at around 600 milliamps, and this can charge a phone in around an hour and a half.

Woman survives being buried alive by bear saving her for his next meal

NATALYA Pasternak, a mother-of-two has an incredible story to tell her children. She was with a friend collecting birch sap when her dog started barking to warn them of a bear approaching. They tried to run away and though her friend managed to get away, Natalya was caught by the bear!

Her friend went on to raise the alarm with authorities, but by then the bear had buried Natalya alive, apparently to save her for its next meal. Upon reaching the spot, the police search team found her under earth and leaves in a forest in the Amur region of the Russian Far East. The bear was killed when it tried to attack her rescuers. Natalya was ‘alive and conscious’ and ‘in deep shock,’ according to the reports.