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Technology
Mark Blunden and Rachelle Abbott

OPINION - Tech & Science Daily podcast: Meet the veggie ankylosaur dug up in England

A new species of dinosaur has been named following a lockdown research project focussing on an Isle of Wight skeleton excavated in the 1990s.

Tech & Science Daily podcast discovers more with Stuart Pond, scientific associate at the Natural History Museum’s Department of Earth Sciences.

The 4.5-metre long vegetarian ankylosaur has been named Vectipelta barretti after Professor Paul Barrett, who’s worked at the London museum for two decades.

Names and company details involving victims of a major global hack have been published on the dark web as a gang of hackers increases pressure to get ransom money.

The group, called Clop, is holding the stolen data, with details of 26 institutions from the US, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada including banks and universities among those whose info has been uploaded.

A study by the Cleveland Clinic has revealed how copious red meat and sugar found in Western diets could be linked to an increase in colorectal cancer in young American patients.

Researchers found that people under 50 with colorectal cancer had lower levels of citrate - the compound generated when the body turns food into energy - than their older peers.

Plus, dog bites hot weather link, why Meghan and Harry’s Spotify podcast was cancelled, planets in the morning and a microscopic handbag.

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