Attenborough gives shark tooth to 7-year-old Prince George
London: Veteran broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough has given Britain’s Prince George a giant shark tooth fossil after a private viewing of his new documentary at Kensington Palace.
Photos released by the palace showed the 7-year-old prince looking intrigued as he looked at the tooth from a carcharocles megalodon, a species that lived more than 3 million years ago and was three times the size of modern great white sharks.
Attenborough, 94, found the tooth during a family holiday to Malta in the late 1960s.
Attenborough, who spent his childhood collecting fossils and other natural specimens, visited the palace for a private viewing of his new environmental documentary with George’s father, Prince William.
The film, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, is a personal reflection on his career as a naturalist and the changes he has seen in the natural world during his lifetime.
Attenborough has been making nature documentaries since the 1950s and helped underscore the global threat posed by plastic waste in his 2017 series Blue Planet II. William is second in line to the British throne after his father, Prince Charles, and George is third in line. (AP)
S. Korea returns Korean War remains of 117 Chinese soldiers
Beijing: The remains of 117 Chinese soldiers who died in the 1950-53 Korean War were returned to China on Sunday in an annual repatriation delayed this year by the coronavirus outbreak.
South Korea handed over the remains at a ceremony at Incheon airport outside Seoul, and a Chinese military transport plane flew them to Shenyang, a northeastern Chinese city near the North Korean border.
Chinese soldiers fought on the North Korean side against U.S.-led forces in the South during the war on the Korean Peninsula.
Most of the 117 remains were found in the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea. It was the seventh annual repatriation, and the largest since the 437 returned in the first one in 2014. In all, the remains of 716 Chinese soldiers have been sent back.
This year’s return, originally planned for the spring, was postponed for several months because of the spread of COVID-19. (AP)