Sure, she was imprisoned by her cousin Elizabeth I and beheaded when she was 44yo, but Mary, Queen of Scots, did ok before her grizzly end… Previously unpublished financial accounts from the 1580s show she had access to fine foods, a large staff and horses. Still, she probably would have preferred to be the Queen of England…

A giant new seagrass ecosystem – possibly the largest in the world – has been discovered off the Bahamas using a new mapping technique that’s seen cameras and trackers strapped to tiger sharks. They went “deeper and farther than humans can” to make the important environmental discovery.

He’s tiny, he’s cuddly, he’s furry… And now Pumuckel the Shetland pony is vying for a big title of the ‘world’s smallest pony’. At 50cm tall and 35kg, he’s about a 3rd the size of a regular Shetland. He’s got a big personality, though… His owners say his “airs and graces” see him eating his breakfast with them inside their home.