Last week, we told you about Kami Rita Sherpa, the Nepalese man who has scaled Mount Everest a record 26th times. Now, British mountaineer Kenton Cool has become the first non-Sherpa to complete the 8,849-metre peak 16 times. So many questions, most of them are ‘why?’…

A fossilised 100 million-yo dinosaur called Hector has sold for more than US$12 million. With a large and deadly claw on each foot, he inspired the makers of Jurassic Park.

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano explosion in January was the largest since 1883. Generating sounds that could be heard up to 10,000km away in Alaska and Lamb waves that went around the world for 6 days, it was up there with the Krakatoa explosion in Indonesia, scientists say.