This may go some way to explaining the ‘Kevin’ phenomenon described so perceptively by Harry Enfield

“This may go some way to explaining the ‘Kevin’ phenomenon described so perceptively by Harry Enfield.”Six hundred children between six and 17 were studied to see how good they were at recognising facial expressions. Scientists believe a regression in the brain at puberty could explain why Harry Enfield’s character Kevin finds life so unfair. Young teenagers begin to lose the ability to discern emotions in adults’ faces, causing them to behave temporarily like younger children. Professor David Skuse, of the Institute of Child Health in London, told the British Association for the Advancement of Science that hormonal surges at puberty may cause a rewiring of the brain of adolescents which interferes with their ability to interact socially with their elders.

“There is a temporary deterioration in children’s capacity accurately to interpret emotions from facial expressions around the time of puberty,” he said.

“Exceptional tissue preservation shows this was a sophisticated structure It wasn’t just a piece of skin,” he said.. The inability to penetrate the minds of stroppy, angst-ridden teenagers is an accepted part of parenthood Now it appears the feeling is mutual. The largest flying bird today is the wandering albatross with a wingspan of about 11ft 6in. Dr Martill said: “Pterosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, they left no descendants.” Pterosaurs could walk on four legs using the “knuckles” of their hands.They flew with the help of a membrane, half a millimetre thick, between their neck, tail and wings. Details of the pterosaur – the first animals with backbones to fly – emerged at the British Association’s Science Festival in Dublin, where it was described by David Martill of Portsmouth University from work carried out by Dino Frey of the State Museum for Natural History in Karlsruhe.

Only fragments of wing bones have been found but from their dimensions the individual must have had a wingspan of 18 metres (59ft), Dr Martill said.

A flying reptile that lived 100 million years ago and had a wingspan of 60ft has entered the record books as the largest known animal to have ever taken to the air

Scientists discovered its fossilised bones in Mexico. Men are awful: arrogant, nasty creatures.”pandora independent.co.uk. He made a very authentic woman, didn’t he?”Lombard, 39, right with Winner, was speaking at the launch of the self-help book Everything I Know About Men I Learnt From My Dog.Asked about the book’s title, 69 year-old ladies’ man Winner says: “I think it’s rather an insult to dogs. Fortunately, he later became a fan.”* The sight of a pensioner, Michael Winner, wearing fishnet stockings and an apron (and speaking like a girl) in a car insurance advert has caused merriment in sitting rooms across the land.Fortunately, the great man’s new squeeze Paula Lombard has heartily endorsed the cross-dressing exercise “I thought he looked great as a woman,” she tells me “He looked cute Just like someone’s older sister. “I didn’t know him at the time (we didn’t work together until he was 17) but it now turns out one of them was from Matt.”He’d rung up to say the show ought to be taken off the airwaves. “He’s always pretended to her that he’s been utterly faithful, but Jenny says this is quite untrue.”* The comedian Matt Lucas owes his “big break” to Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, who employed him to bash a drum on the quiz show Shooting Stars.By way of a return compliment, Lucas has just made a tribute documentary about their 1990s sketch show Vic Reeves’ Big Night Out, to be released on a DVD of the programme.Ironically, it emerged during filming that the (then-unknown) Lucas was originally unimpressed by the show.”On the first night it was on telly, Channel 4 had 17 complaints,” Reeves tells me. She has now written to the paper, claiming: “Mortimer would say that, wouldn’t he?”Lord has an interesting theory as to why Mortimer should seek to deny this particular fling, despite having owned up to all the others in the book.”The reason for John’s denial is that when he had the affair (she was 23, he 46) he was already married to his current wife, Penny,” he says.