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The tiny kingbird that took a piggyback on a predatory hawk and lived to tell the tale

How far would you go to get rid of an unwelcome visitor?

This is the moment a tiny kingbird decided it was time to see off a potential predator circling his home.

In a bold move, the aggressive little bird launched itself at the fearsome red-tailed hawk and sank its talons into the larger bird's back.

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Time you were going: The red-tailed hawk shrieks in pain as the brave kingbird sinks its talons in

The feisty kingbird attacked the hawk as it ventured too near its nest, dive-bombing it relentlessly, before jumping on for a piggyback, clinging to it as it soared through the air.

It enjoyed the ride for a few seconds before resuming the attack, pecking the hawk's head in fury.

The hawk, which is typically up to 50 times bigger than the kingbird, was powerless to shake its rider off and shrieked until it finally flew away to look for easier pickings elsewhere.

The incredible moment was captured by amateur photographer Pat Gaines, 41, at Bonny Lake park in Colorado, United States.

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Enjoy the ride: The kingbird clings on for a piggyback as the hawk tries to shake off its attacker

Pat, who lives in Denver, Colorado, said: 'I've never seen red tail hawks harassed so much - the hawks I saw were constantly being chased by a variety of smaller birds.

'This kingbird perched between the wings on the hawk's back for several seconds, and pecked at its head as the hawk flew away screaming.

'Red tail hawks are known for their piercing, iconic scream and the hawks I heard at Bonny Lake sounded hoarse - like they were all screamed out.

'It is common to see smaller, faster birds dive-bombing and harassing hawks, but this is the first time I've seen one ridden bareback.'

A member of the flycatcher family, the kingbird is known for defending its nest area very aggressively, pluckily driving off unwanted intruders, including hawks.

'Interestingly, their genus name is Tyrannus, which also may refer to this type of behaviour.' said Pat.

'Western kingbirds weigh about 1.3-1.6 oz, whereas red tail hawks are about two to four pounds, so the little kingbird is beating up on a hawk that is about 20 to 50 times its size.'

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British art historian creates world's largest shawl woven from the silk of one million spiders

A British art historian has created what is believed to be the world's largest and rarest piece of cloth made entirely from golden spider silk.

The 11ft hand-woven silk shawl took Simon Peers five years to make and cost him and his American business partner Nicholas Godley more than £300,000.

The shawl went on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York last week and is set to come to London next year.

The silk spun by a golden orb spider is stronger than steel or Kevlar but far more flexible

The silk has been extracted from more than one million golden orb spiders, which can be found in Madagascar. Only the females produce the silk which is known for its rich golden colour and strength.

'I hate sounding pretentious, but what we wanted to do here was produce something that was a work of art,' Mr Godley told the New York Times.

'I feel like what we’ve produced in some ways is more exceptional because of the extraordinary amount of effort that went into it.'

According to the Sunday Times, the spiders, which are not poisonous, were carefully placed in harnesses so they could not eat one another or escape.

It took more than one million spiders, five years and £300,000 to create the world's largest and rarest shawl made entirely from spider silk

Weavers then gently extracted the strands of filament that dangle from their spinnerets. One spider is capable of spinning up to 400 yards of gold-coloured thread.

The 24 filaments from each set of harnesses were then twisted by hand into a single strand, and twisted again with three other 24-filament strands to make the silk thread that was used to weave the cloth.

Mr Godley told Wired Science: 'Fourteen thousand spiders yield about an ounce of silk and the textile weighs about 2.6 pounds. The numbers are crazy.'

'We had to find people who were willing to work with spiders because they bite,' he added.

Mr Peers and Mr Godley, who worked on the project for five years, say they have created a work of art

Mr Peers was inspired by 19th-century accounts of a unique attempt by a French colonial administrator to spin cloth from the silken threads of Madagascar's ubiquitous golden orb spider.

'I wasn’t sure if the stories were apocryphal or real,' Mr Peers told the Sunday Times.

Initial attempts to recreate an elaborate mechanical contraption that could harness up to 24 spiders at a time were thwarted when the female spiders started eating each other.

Mr Peers told the newspaper: 'We would start with 20 and end up with three very fat ones.'

The spider-silk shawl is hand-woven with traditional Malagasy motifs and is larger than any other pieces of spider cloth.

Mr Peers knows of only two other pieces, both of which are only a few centimetres wide and are kept in a museum in Lyons, France.

'I think we’ve surpassed anyone else,' he told the Sunday Times.

While some spiders naturally died during production, Mr Peers and Mr Godley set up a system so that spiders being used were released daily.

'We have become sort of the defenders of these spiders, something we never thought we’d be,' Mr Godley told the New York Times.

'They really are very regal-looking creatures.'

Amazing Morning Glory

I don't know how it happens, but come the first of September, it seems like fall is here overnight. There's that special hint of a chill in the air, the humidity has all but left and the sky is a deeper blue.

Ever since I was a boy, one sure sign the days of summer were coming to an end was the browning of corn and the surprisingly vigorous and healthy morning glory vines that crept toward the tassels of cornstalks. Even though the first frost of fall is just weeks away, the plants seem to relish the cool nights and days of rain.

Sometimes, there are those little gems of nature and life, where the simplest of sights holds a delightful surprise and has the power to change your mood. So it is with morning glories with their robin-egg blue, deep purple, blushing pink and white flowering trumpets. Several years ago I happened to see a row of corn along a fence, and each stalk was decorated with the twirling vines, seed pods and flowers holding drops of cold dew.

In spite of all that is wrong with the world, our econom -- and many times -- our lives, there is a vignette of nature that offers a moment of peace. And so it was that fall morning, when this seemingly insignificant flower becomes nature's featured cameo of the day. One morning recently I saw the flowers showcased against dried corn leaves. I stopped to take a closer look, trying to determine what it really was that captured the eye and soothed the heart.

Maybe when we are young we have the time and interest to discover and appreciate the new and exciting. Certainly I associate the flower with growing up on the farm, standing at the edge of the road, waiting for the school bus and seeing the corn and soybean fields accented with morning glories.

This time I noticed a particularly dark navy-blue purple trumpet with the subtlest of varying shades. As the flower narrowed, it became drastically lighter and turned white. So white it looked like a tiny bulb was illuminating the flower.

Have to admit, I was really surprised. What was producing this bit of visual magic? The white interior and thinness of the flower allowed sunlight to illuminate the base of the trumpet. Who would have thought such a humble field flower held such remarkable qualities and beauty?
For the time spent looking, examining and being impressed, I found a special kind of peace in the world.

When it comes time to combine the fields, farmers aren't pleased with the dense vines that quickly choke the chewing augers of combine heads. Truth is, these vines can take over parts of a yard and cover fencing quickly and thoroughly. In a garden they form their own living canopy of vine over struggling young fall vegetables.

In our lives, we associate certain music, seasons and foods with the good and bad moments of our lives. Flowers, too, have a role. They seem to represent all that is pure, delicate, beautiful in nature and the best aspirations in our lives. To me, morning glories are the butterflies of the flower world, so fragile and light.

For some reason, there are few morning glories on the farm where I live. I have had to make do with a little stretch of milkweed flowers that grew along a corn row. In mid-summer they were alive with butterflies and bumbles bees. I made sure I didn't mow them down. The pods have since exploded and the seeds lay in wait to sprout in the spring.

As I drive through the countryside and see the heart-shaped leaves and the trumpets of morning glories, they bring back memories of growing up on the farm. Now that I have really taken the time to appreciate them, I am moved by their beauty and power to touch the heart.

Want a better life? Follow Jerry Jones's time-tested 6-point plan

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has built the largest, most opulent stadium in the NFL.

At this very moment I am on my way to being happier, wealthier and more successful than I was at this time last week, and I have Jerry Jones to thank for it.

Allow me to explain. Last weekend I flew to Dallas to report on the first regular-season NFL game at the opulent new Cowboys Stadium. In the interest of experiential journalism, I hung with tailgaters, wedged myself into the mosh pit that passed for balcony viewing and spent far too much time in the presence of large, sweaty men in Jason Witten jerseys who possessed very strong feelings about both Tony Romo (HE SUCKS!) and beer (WE SHOULD GET SOME MORE!).

More constructively, however, I spent a chunk of last Saturday morning with Jones, whom I'd never met before. Now, no matter what you think of Jones -- and it's fair to say he inspires a wide array of feelings -- there's no denying that he is an exceptionally skilled businessman. He made his fortune finding oil where others thought there was none, has watched his investment in the Cowboys rise 856 percent in value and has now built an enormous, revenue-generating stadium in the middle of a recession. And despite all that, god bless him, he has yet to appear on Dancing with the Stars.

In addition, at 66, he's led a pretty good life. A starter for Arkansas on a Cotton Bowl team, he's been married to the same woman for more than 40 years, has tons of kids and grandkids and is sitting on a pile of money that could probably fill his cavernous new stadium. All of which got me to thinking: Considering all the success he's had, couldn't we all benefit from living our lives a little more like Jerry Jones?

Seriously, what if, when faced with a dilemma, rather than muddling through it we were to ask WWJD: What Would Jerry Do? Surely it would be but a matter of time before we were richer, more successful and suspiciously younger-looking.

So I set about putting together a list of guiding principles, based on what I knew about Jones and on my time in Arlington, and here's what I came up with. Read it, learn it, live it.

1. Get the party started

During our hour-long conversation, Jones mentioned "party" or "party atmosphere" seven times when talking about the new stadium. And what a party it was! I spent the better part of a half in the "party pass" section, where $29 got you standing-room only tickets. I have never been to a Nickelback concert, and do not plan on ever going to one voluntarily, but my guess is that this was like being at one, if your standing-room spot was so far away you couldn't see the stage and everyone had already been doing beer bongs for eight hours. Cowboys fans littered the outdoor plaza, some passed out on the grass, others swaying like shrubs in a high wind, still others propped up against concrete stanchions, most staring glassy-eyed at the omnipresent video screens. Those who weren't in Cowboys gear sported Affliction T-shirts and those not in Affliction T-shirts must have been from out of town. Men pawed at women, women ran from men, beer spilled.

Okay, so maybe this one didn't work out exactly as Jones planned -- fire marshals lost control of the crowd, and many fans were upset that they couldn't see the game. But it's the idea that we can emulate: take an ordinary experience, like watching a football game on big screens on a concrete plaza, then call it a "party" and, voila, it's worth $29!

So next time you have a mundane task and need help, spice it up with a little patented Jerry Jones spin. Right away, I put this strategy to use. I had the kids to myself the other night, so I called my friend Dan and invited him to come over for a "party" at my place.

"Cool," he said. "Who'll be there?"

"Girls! Crazy girls!" I said.

"You mean your daughters?"

"Um, yeah, them."

I could tell he was totally psyched.

2. Micromanage everything

When Jones and I met in one of the luxury suites, we were only supposed to talk for 15 minutes. Soon enough, however, he was leading me on a tour of the stadium, which wouldn't have seemed unusual were it not for the fact that Cowboys p.r. man Rich Dalrymple had already led me on an hour-long tour only moments earlier. Dalrymple, who is quite good at his job, had been thorough and informative and most of all quite concerned that he'd forget some detail that Jones would then inquire about. "If he asks you about the artwork," Dalrymple said to me more than once, referring to the 14 pieces by renowned artists that Jones commissioned for the stadium, "Just tell him I showed it to you, okay?"

This is how Jones operates, peering over shoulders and revising and, always, doing things his way. True, it may undermine the authority of those who work for him, or make for repetitive tasks, but it's clearly working. After all, have you seen his new stadium? (No, really, have you seen it? Because I don't think there's been any media coverage at all)

So, for your own good, commence micromanagement immediately. If your wife makes dinner, watch and critique at all times -- More salt! Braise longer! If your buddy brings over a six-pack, send him back out for better beer -- your drinking enjoyment is at stake!

3. Stop wasting your time with sleep

During our talk Jones told me he'd been averaging two hours' sleep during the week leading up to the opener. He'd go to bed at midnight, then wake up at 2 a.m. and feverishly work out for an hour and a half -- "lots of push-ups, sit-ups and cardio" -- before returning to the stadium to oversee preparations. Yes, his eyelids looked a bit heavy and his voice was a tad raspy, but otherwise he was bursting with energy. "I've found that I can operate on very little sleep for long periods of time," he told me. "Even better than when I was in my 20s."

The lesson? Stop being such a baby. Set the alarm for 2 a.m. Then go straight to your gym, which will probably be closed, and demand you be let in. Then show up at your office, which will probably be locked, and get a start on the day. After a week of this, you'll feel great, look great and be ready to take on the world. Then make sure to tell everyone just how little sleep you get, so they know just how serious you are about success.

4. Go against the crowd

Zigging when others zag is how Jones made all that oil money, and it's how he bought the Cowboys. People forget that when he purchased the team, in 1989, not only were the Cowboys a mess, but one of the stipulations of the sale was that he also had to buy Texas Stadium, at the time seen as a financial handcuff. And just look at his football decisions. He signed Pacman Jones when everyone said he shouldn't, and the same goes Terrell Owens. Okay, those didn't work out so well, but you get the idea: Be a contrarian!

5. Go Big!

This one's self-explanatory, provided you've ever seen a Jerry Jones home game or press conference or followed any aspect of his career (this is a man, after all, who tried to buy an NFL team when he was 24 years old, entirely on credit). One example from Sunday: Just before kickoff, Jones' prized Gargantu-tron showed a series of captioned photos that began with the Pyramids before showing the Parthenon, the Great Wall, Taj Mahal, Roman Coliseum and, finally, inevitably, Cowboys Stadium. You may call that self-congratulatory and tacky. I call it genius.

So look for ways to Go Bigger! every day. Have your own jersey made for pickup basketball games with "Cash Money" on the back. Add a tagline to your e-mail espousing your credentials; for example, "Eddie Jamison is a lawyer at Jacobs, Marley & Jensen. He is also way better looking than you." Remember, superlatives are your friend, and self-aggrandizement is your default position.

6. Be magnanimous

As I walked out of the stadium with Jones around noon, a group of Cowboys fans who were there for a tour -- at $15 a pop! (further proof he's a financial genius) -- saw him and did a double-take. He inquired about their experience. They said the tour had been sold out, so they weren't able to go. "I'm really sorry about that," Jones said, seeming genuinely concerned, then added brightly: "How about we take a picture together then?" At this, the fans lit up and scooted into position and snap went the camera. Everyone walked away happy.

The lesson? Rather than telling the fans the truth -- that it was their fault they were late and missed the tour -- or asking why in the world they wanted to spend a cumulative $60 to tour an empty stadium, Jones was empathetic and offered a (free) alternative.

So here's an example of how it would work in your life. Say you're from Pittsburgh and you run into a Cowboys fan who looks glum. You ask him why and he says, "Because my team hasn't won a playoff game in 13 years." At this point, instead of telling him the truth -- that his team has brought in mismatched parts, has overpaid prima donnas and has underperformed in crunch time -- you could offer to let him take a picture with your Steelers championship banner. That should cheer him right up!

So there you have it: Six steps to a better life, courtesy of Jerry Jones. Go ahead and get to it -- you can thank Jerry later. Seriously, he'll be waiting to hear from you. Don't let him down.

Chris Ballard is a Senior Writer for SI and SI.com. His "On Sports" column appears every Thursday on SI.com and he writes the "Point After" column for the magazine every third week. His latest book, The Art of a Beautiful Game: The Thinking Fan's Tour of the NBA, will be in bookstores on Nov. 3.

Christine Paolilla 20/20 ABC:Life In Prison Verdict

Christine Paolilla 20/20 ABC – This evening “20/20″ focused on the dramatic life story of Christine Paolilla a solitary kid who back in 2003 met and befriended Rachael Koloroutis and Tiffany Rowell at Clear Lake High School in suburban Houston. Rachael Koloroutis and Tiffany Rowell helped Christine to become more acceptable by her peers.But on July 18, 2003 Christine repaid Rachael Koloroutis and Tiffany Rowell by killing them along with their boyfriends while they were watching television.Psychiatrist Gail Saltz, author of “Anatomy of a Secret Life: The Psychology of Living a Lie,” described Christine’s act by saying:
“I think there’s a chance she thought they were pitying her … but still envied them, because they didn’t have to work so hard to be nice, to be accepted.That’s going to create some intense envy and jealousy, bring out the aggression, and the … wish to punish them for what they have.”

Justice eventually caught up with the former “Miss Irresistible” in September 2008,she was sentenced to life in prison for killing her four teenage friends. She is currently behind bars at a women’s penitentiary in Gatesville, Texas.
That’s all we have for now on Christine Paolilla.

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Life is sweet upon the front seat of a tandem bicycle made for... R2D2

Many a cyclist has wished for a bit of extra help when tackling strenuous hills. Now one inventor has hit on the answer... a cycling robot.

Chris was challenged by his son to create an electric tandem that worked via pedal power for the steep hills near their home in America.

The engineer came up with Joules, an android with human proportioned legs that perches on the backseat and powers the vehicle with the help of an electric motor. All Chris has to do is let his legs rotate and control the steering.

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Chris (r) makes a few final adjustments to Joules before setting off for his first ride on the robot-powered tandem

'The fun part was coming up with a drive linkage that would use human-proportional legs to pedal in a circle matching the pedal cranks,' he told a technology forum.

To give the pair stability on the road, Chris added two small stabiliser wheels at the back. They are both shown in a touching video, ambling down a road with matching helmets.

He built Joules from an array of nuts, bolts, shafts and chains in his basement over four months. The robot, Trek tandem and battery box weigh around 200lbs together.

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Joules is made from a hard-wearing aluminium alloy and powered by a motor

Most of Joules' body is made from a hard aluminium alloy shaped with a mill-drill, jet lathe and jigsaw. The smooth finish was the result of 'a lot of filing.'

'The build was motivated by a couple of things,' Chris said.

'One, I wanted to see if I could regain a few shop skills. The last time I had touched a mill was during Nixon's first presidential term.

'Second, I was frustrated because I meet very few kids who get excited by actually building something. I wanted to show local kids that having ideas and building them is FUN! We need lots of kids to believe that, I think.'

His invention has met with widespread approval from his peers.

'Watching this marvel is really something that makes an engineers heart beat faster,' one wrote after viewing the footage.

'It is a mechanical wonder.'

Life is sweet upon the front seat of a tandem bicycle made for... R2D2

Deadly second wave of swine flu 'on its way', scientists warn

A second wave of swine flu could be on its way, scientists warned last night after the number of new cases rose for the first time since July.

The jump, from an estimated 3,000 to 5,000, comes a fortnight after children - key spreaders of the disease - returned to school.

There have been outbreaks at six schools in England, but health chiefs repeated that there are no plans to close schools as it would do little to contain the disease.

In another development, two sufferers are believed to have developed resistance to Tamiflu, the anti-viral drug which is the only line of defence to the disease before a vaccine is ready.

Disruption: A woman walks through London with a surgical mask in an attempt to protect her from swine flu (file picture). Scientists fear the deadly second wave of swine flu is on its way

Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson however said the two cases were not of significance as there was no evidence these resistant viruses had been transmitted from person to person.

Experts have been predicting a second wave of swine flu will hit in the winter months following a lull over the summer break, when children were not mixing as freely. Sir Liam said the figures 'begin to suggest swine flu is coming back'. And he admitted: 'We would naturally have hoped for a bit more breathing space before it started again.'

There are 143 people in hospital in England, of whom 23 are in intensive care. The total of deaths linked to the virus stands at 67 in England and 79 across the UK.

Sir Liam has revised NHS forecasts, saying that between 3,000 and 19,000 will die from the virus - down from the 65,000 worst case scenario outlined in July.

The number of new cases have been falling since the peak of 110,000 a week reported in late July. Experts believe a second wave of the disease will be more deadly as it will coincide with winter, when flu is more virulent.

Sir Liam said more than 1.3million people had been assessed via the National Pandemic Flu Service for England, with 522,890 collections of anti-viral drugs.

Health Secretary Andy Burnham, left, and Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson demonstrate how to sneeze, while reducing the risk of infecting others, during a visit to a North London school

The schools affected by outbreaks are two in South Yorkshire, one in Carlisle, one in the North East and two in London.

Sir Liam said there were no plans to close schools as the virus was circulating in the community, meaning such efforts would have little value.

Tests on GlaxoSmithKline's flu vaccine has shown that a good immune response can be achieved with just one dose rather than two, he said.

However, Sir Liam said the under-13s and over-65s may need two doses, although research was ongoing.

The Health Protection Agency said two samples from UK patients have been shown to have the genetic change associated with Tamiflu resistance. Both were from patients with compromised immune systems.

One has been proved to be resistant; the other is undergoing further tests to confirm resistance.

A spokeswoman for the HPA said there was no question that the resistance could have been caused by overuse of Tamiflu, which has been prescribed to hundreds of thousands of people with suspected cases of the disease.

'We have seen this in other countries where there hasn't been mass prescription of Tamiflu,' she said. 'The cases are sporadic, and there is no evidence of onward transmission. This is to be expected and is not a cause for concern.'

Stunning shots of thirsty bats swooping down for a drink from garden pond

Swooping low over a garden pond in Surrey, these are the stunning pictures of bats enjoying an evening drink at their favourite watering hole.

They are so detailed you can even see the night creatures slurping from the pool with their little pink tongues.

The amazing shots were taken after months of painstaking planning by wildlife photographer Kim Taylor.

The amazing shots were taken after months of painstaking planning by Kim Taylor. This is thought to be a brown long-eared bat

Kim Taylor shows off his equipment that he used to get his detailed images

After noticing the beautiful bats flying close to his garden pond at night Kim began wondering how he could capture the moment they drank from the pool.

Travelling at 20mph, with wing beats not visible to the human eye and flying mostly at night the bats are notoriously difficult to photograph.

They are also no bigger than a human hand and weigh less than half an ounce.

Kim, 76, rigged ropes across the pond which encouraged the bats to drink from a certain point. Then, using special sensors designed by himself, he managed to get the perfect shots.

This Daubeton bat swooped over the pond in Guildford at 20MPH

He said: 'I think not one in a million people has ever seen this happen but it happens every night during the summer months all over the country.

'These photos were taken with a digital camera using a device that listens for the ultrasonic squeaks.

'An infrared beam was then set to trigger flash lamps whenever a bat dipped down to scoop up a mouthful of water.

Kim's subjects are believed to be a Brown long-eared and a Daubentons bat which have made their homes in his garden near Guildford, Surrey.

'In all my time working as a wildlife photographer I don't think anyone has ever tried to do this like this, I am very pleased with the results.

'It took weeks and a lot of patience to set up but the results are breathtaking.'

The photographs even captured this brown long-eared bat's reflection

Except for the camera itself, Kim designed and built all the equipment to achieve the amazing shots.

To generate enough flash to capture the shot Kim needed an incredible 3,500 volts.
Heather McFarlane, from the Bat Conservation Trust, said she was stunned by the photographs.

She said: 'Our experts have never seen anything like these shots before, to capture these bats in flight so clearly is amazing.'

Amazing find of dinosaur 'mummy'

Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of a dinosaur that has much of its soft tissue still intact.

Skin, muscle, tendons and other tissue that rarely survive fossilisation have all been preserved in the specimen unearthed in North Dakota, US.

The 67 million-year-old dinosaur is one of the duck-billed hadrosaur group.

The preservation allowed scientists to estimate that it was more muscular than thought, perhaps giving it the ability to outrun predators like T. rex.

The researchers propose that the dinosaur's rump was 25% larger than had previously been thought. This probably meant more muscle mass and therefore greater acceleration, giving it a greater chance of evading meat-eating dinosaurs in hot pursuit.

Depth and structure

While it has been dubbed a dinosaur "mummy", the dinosaur is actually fossilised into stone.

But unlike the collections of bones found in many museums, this hadrosaur came complete with fossilised skin, ligaments, tendons and possibly some internal organs, according to researchers.

"It's unbelievable when you look at it for the first time," said palaeontologist Phillip Manning from the University of Manchester, UK.

The scales are still visible on the fossilised skin

"There is depth and structure to the skin. The level of detail expressed in the skin is just breathtaking."

Dr Manning said there was a pattern of banding to the larger and smaller scales on the skin.

Because it has been fossilised researchers do not know the colour of the skin. But looking at it in monochrome shows a striped pattern. He noted that in modern reptiles, such a pattern is often associated with transitions between different skin colours.

The fossil was found in 1999 and is now nicknamed Dakota. It is being analysed in the world's largest CT scanner, operated by the Boeing corporation.

The machine usually is used for space shuttle engines and other large objects. Researchers hope the technology will help them learn more about the fossilised insides of the creature.

The reptile had no chest cavity, suggesting it had been partially eaten by predators before being "mummified" in unusual conditions: acidic, waterlogged sediments collected around the dinosaur, triggering the rapid deposit of minerals and trapping organic molecules before they decayed.

Jordon Lloyd Wins Big Brother 11

Finally its out, Jordan Lloyd has been declared the winner of the Big Brother 11, and that also makes the sole contender of the 500,000 dollar grand prize.

Buzz up!

Known for tongue-in-cheek a bit tardy style, the 22-year old works as a waitress in Matthews, NC, however, she ousted the schemer, 24-year old college graduate Gilbert from Arizona to win the title in this CBS reality Show.

	The two-hour long finale had the two final contestants thorough being interrogated by the jury member, while the rest unlucky 13 watched it from the side seats.

The jury voted Lloyd a winner as she went went on garner most votes from the jury as well as from the audience.

The two-hour long finale had the two final contestants thorough being interrogated by the jury member, while the rest unlucky 13 watched it from the side seats. However, the audience did miss the presence of Chima Siomone, a freelance journalist, who got expelled from the show after he threw the microphone into a spa.

Kanye West FINALLY apologises to Taylor Swift after Obama calls him a jackass

Kanye West has finally apologised to Taylor Swift for his MTV Video Music Awards outrage, after Barack Obama called him a jackass over the incident.

The U.S. President voiced his opinion on the shameful incident, which was beamed live to 27million households in America, and shortly afterward the rapper finally did the decent thing and called the country star.

Despite saying sorry on his blog and talking about the incident on TV, it took West two days to speak to the 19-year-old star and offer a personal apology.

Rattled: Taylor Swift admitted Kanye West had not apologised for his hijack of her speech on TV show The View yesterday

He phoned her yesterday to apologise for leaping on stage and ripping the microphone from her hands to declare that Beyonce should have won her award.

Swift had appeared on TV show The View where she admitted that she had been 'rattled' by his onstage hijack and said he hadn't apologised to her.

'He has not personally reached out or anything but if he wanted to say hi (I would),' she said.

The rapper called the country star after the show aired and spoke to her over the phone to finally make his apology

'I'm not gonna say that I wasn't riled by it. I had to perform live five minutes later so I had to get myself back to the place where I could perform.'

The shamed star then called Swift, and she accepted his apologies, according to publicists from the show.

West has taken a drubbing since the event.

While he issued two apologies on his blog after the incident, he gave another, emotional one on Monday's NBC premiere of The Jay Leno Show.

The President's colourful remark, where he called West a 'jackass', was made during an interview with U.S. network CNBC and was meant to be kept off the record.

Shamed: Kanye West appeared close to tears as he made a rambling apology to Taylor Swift on Jay Leno's late-night talk show on Monday

But the comment leaked out to news sites after a reporter from rival network ABC posted the comment on micro-blogging site Twitter.

'Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a "jackass" for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential,' reporter Terry Moran wrote.

Unimpressed: Barack Obama disapproved of West's onstage antics

Fellow musicians were outraged at West's behaviour. Singer Kelly Clarkson called West 'a sad human being', while American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert wrote on his Twitter page, 'Kanye needs to chill. He freaks out every year. It ain't that deep, man.'

West made an impromptu appearance on Jay Leno's late-night show to apologise to Swift, saying he wanted to say sorry to her in person.

The rapper said he was sorry for being 'rude'.

Viewers were shocked by his antics at Sunday night's awards - beforehand he was seen swigging cognac from a bottle on the red carpet.

West told Leno he was planning to take a break from the music industry and to assess his behaviour, which he partly sought to excuse with the recent death of his mother Donda.

As the host introduced his guest, he said: 'This really wasn't planned but Kanye wanted to talk, so please welcome Kanye West.'

Remorse: Kanye told Jay Leno (right) that he plans to take time off to reflect

When he sat down, Leno said to him: 'Tell us about your day. Have you had a tough day today?'

Taylor Swift appearing a little bit shaken up yesterday as she stops at Starbucks with band members in New York

His voice cracking, West - dressed all in black - said: 'It's been extremely difficult, just dealing with the fact that I hurt someone or took anything away, you know, from a talented artist - or from anyone.

'But I need to, after this, take some time off and just analyse how I'm going to make it through the rest of this life, how I'm going to improve. Because I am a celebrity, and that's something I have to deal with.

'It was rude, period.

'And, you know, I'd like to be able to apologise to her in person. And I wanted to...'

West was angered at the MTV awards by the victory of Swift in Best Female Video category for You Belong To Me.

She was left humiliated as West turned to the audience after grabbing her microphone and shouting that the gong should have gone to his friend Beyonce, for her video for Single Ladies.

He was booed by the star-studded audience and ejected from the theatre.

The outburst on the live telecast was seen by some 27million viewers - the largest TV audience since 2002 for the annual MTV Video Music Awards, MTV said on Monday.

Video of the incident was seen about 2million times on the MTV.com website alone.

But West appeared on the verge of tears when asked what he thought his late mother would have said about the incident.

Donda West, 58, died in November 2007 from complications following cosmetic surgery.

When Leno asked when he knew he was doing something wrong, West replied: 'As soon as I gave the mic back to her and she didn't keep going.'

The talk show host then asked if he thought his mother would have been disappointed in his behaviour.

After pausing for several seconds, he said: 'Yeah.

'Obviously, I deal with hurt.

'And you know, so many celebrities, they never take time off. I've never taken the time off to really - you know, just music after music and tour after tour.

'I'm just ashamed that my hurt caused someone else's hurt - and I don't try to justify it because I was just in the wrong. That's period.

'I only wanted to help people. My entire life, I've only wanted to give and do something that I felt was right.

'And I immediately knew in this situation that it was wrong and it wasn't a spectacle. It was actually someone's emotions that I stepped on.

Storming the stage: Kanye took the microphone from Taylor Swift during her speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards

'And if there's anything I could do to help Taylor in the future or help anyone, I'd like - you know, I want to live this thing. It's hard sometimes.'

West spoke on Leno's show before performing with Jay-Z and Rihanna on Jay-Z's song Run This Town.

Swift, the biggest-selling artist of 2008 in the United States with more than 4million albums, said little on Sunday about the outburst.

'I've been getting so many text messages and everybody's been really nice. So I've had a really, really fun night. It's been interesting definitely. It's definitely been an interesting night,' she said.

West has been in trouble before with ill-timed comments, raising scenes after losing awards himself at the VMAs, the Grammys and the American Music Awards.

In 2005, West said during a telethon to raise money for victims after Hurricane Katrina that President George W. Bush 'doesn't care about black people'.

West had already been set to perform on Leno's first prime-time show on NBC, but asked for time to talk with the controversy swirling.

It was reminiscent of when Hugh Grant appeared on the Tonight show with Leno in 1995 to make amends after being arrested with a prostitute - only this time there weren't many laughs.

Lady GaGa VMA Outfit From 2009 Red Carpet

Lady GaGa certainly succeeded in her mission to turn heads as she arrived for the MTV VMA Awards 2009.

The singer turned up on the VMAs red carpet this year wearing a black avant garde Jean Paul Gaultier dress. The 23-year-old singer also gave performances of Poker Face and Paparazzi at the awards held at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday (September 13).

Lady GaGa arrival and press room photos and her performance below.

When GaGa left the awards themselves to hit the VMA press-room, she had of course changed outfits and was seen wearing a sliver, one-shoulder, body suit number. See the gallery (top) for arrival and the bottom row of the gallery for the press-room outfit.

Lady GaGa took to the VMA 2009 stage and performed Poker Face/ Paparazzi.