Coral-coated shipwreck found off the coast of Mexico crashed into the ‘Nightmare reef’ 200 years ago

Coral-covered shipwreck discovered off the coast of Mexico met its fate after crashing into the ‘Nightmare reef’ over 200 years ago A fisherman spotted the wreck in the 1990s, but experts investigated the remains in just the two past months The organic material degraded, but metal parts, iron ingots, the anchor and a cannon are … Read more

Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs impacted the Earth at ‘the deadliest possible angle’

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago crashed into Earth at ‘the deadliest possible angle’, researchers have concluded. The giant impacter struck what is today Mexico‘s Yucatán Peninsula at around 60 degrees — maximising the production of climate-altering greenhouse gases. The global disaster caused by the space rock — which was … Read more

Hailstones that look like coronavirus are seen as a sign from God to stay home in Mexico

Hailstones that look like coronavirus are seen as a sign from God to stay home during the pandemic by locals in Mexico Locals in Montemorelos, Mexico, were rained on by large spiked hailstones  They compared the shape of the stones with the shape of coronavirus cells  Meteorologist Jose Miguel Vinas said the spiked hailstones were usual … Read more

Bodies of Covid-19 victims lie in the streets of Ecuadorian city

Bodies of coronavirus victims have been seen lying in the streets of the Ecuadorian capital amid warnings the pandemic is yet to peak across Latin America.  Forensics experts were seen attending to the corpse of a 65-year-old man suspected of contracting COVID-19 in Quito on Tuesday. Funeral home workers later arrived to load him into a coffin … Read more

Mutant strain of coronavirus that may make it more infectious now ‘dominant’

Scientists have discovered a coronavirus mutation that is of ‘urgent concern’ because it makes the virus more contagious and has already become dominant in the places it’s reached – including part of the US.  Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico say that the mutant strain started spreading in early February in Europe.  … Read more

New Mexico closes roads in Gallup to curb ‘uninhibited spread of COVID-19’

New Mexico’s Governor has issued a three-day emergency order in the city of Gallup where roads will be sealed off and businesses closed during peak hours in a desperate bid to stop a surging coronavirus outbreak. On Friday Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham invoked the state’s Riot Control Act to ban all traffic in Gallup for … Read more

Earliest African slaves in Mexico were beaten, shot and riddled with disease, study finds

Some of the earliest people forced into slavery in Latin America in the 16th century have been revealed, shedding light on their tragic lives.  Three male skeletons were unearthed in a mass grave on the grounds of Hospital Real de San José de los Naturales, an early colonial hospital in Mexico City.  Analysis of their … Read more

Carole Baskin’s missing ex-husband was ‘strangled and thrown out of an airplane’, his lawyer claims

The lawyer for Carole Baskin’s missing ex-husband Don Lewis (above) claims he was strangled and thrown out of a plane over the Gulf of Mexico  The lawyer for Carole Baskin’s missing ex-husband claims he was strangled and mercilessly thrown out of a plane over the Gulf of Mexico. The wildly popular Netflix series Tiger King: … Read more