HEALTH activists in the UK have launched a campaign to raise awareness of the unhealthiness of so-called "freakshakes" - drinks like milkshakes with added lollies, chocolates, cream and sauce.
Action on Sugar highlighted the results of a recent survey on sweet drinks sold in restaurants and milk bars across the country, saying they contained "grotesque levels of sugar and calories".
A Freakshake sold at an eatery called the Toby Carvery topped the poll with the equivalent of 39 teaspoons of sugar - or more than half the recommended daily allowance of calories for an adult.
The drink is made with grape and raspberry flavoured ice cream, blackcurrant jelly pieces, whipped cream, marshmallows, Skittles and an almond macaroon.
Scientists in Ireland have made an astounding discovery, based on the detailed study of some 125 million-year-old dinosaur dandruff.
The team from University College Cork have been working on fossilised cells from prehistoric feathered dinosaurs from the Cretaceous era, and concluded that the "little white blobs" showing up on their microscopes were in fact dandruff.
Intriguingly the ancient dandruff is almost identical to that found in modern birds, providing clues as to how dinosaurs shed their skin.
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