Record-breakers in the news today
Long-awaited dinosaur movie sequel Jurassic Park 4 is be directed by little-known director Colin Trevorrow, Universal Pictures has confirmed.
The 36-year-old made his feature film directorial debut last year with the time travel comedy, Safety Not Guaranteed.
Steven Spielberg, who directed the first two instalments of the franchise, will is set to be executive producer.
In Jurassic Park, extinct dinosaurs are brought back to life using DNA manipulation.
In January 2011, Japanese researchers announced plans to insert woolly mammoth DNA into African elephant cells to create an elephant-mammoth hybrid, making it the first prehistoric extinct cloning project.
It's expected to take around two years before an embryo is ready to be implanted into an elephant.
Excavations for the huge Crossrail underground project in London has revealed bodies in a burial ground believed to date from the early days of the Black Death.
Thirteen bodies have been found so far in the 5.5m-wide shaft at the edge of Charterhouse Square, in the City of London alongside pottery dated to the mid-14th Century.
The Black Death killed around a quarter of the population of Europe, and some 75 million worldwide between 1347 and 1751.
Rugby League star Jamie Jones-Buchanan has named his newborn son Bane - in honour of the masked Batman bad guy.
Jamie, a second row for Leeds Rhinos, and his wife Emma followed their tradition of choosing far-out names - their three older sons Lore, six, Dacx, five, and Kurgan, three, were named after sci-fi characters.
The Dark Knight Rises, the third Batman movie to be directed by Christopher Nolan, which features Bane, grossed $160,887,295 (£103.9 million) in its opening weekend of 20-22 July 2012, earning it the title for h ighest box office film gross (2D) - opening weekend.
Finally, a diamond and sapphire engagement ring that Napoleon Bonaparte offered to his first wife Josephine is set to go on auction near Paris next month.
The gold ring is topped by two pear-shaped stones and is estimated to fetch up to 12,000 euros ($16,000) at the March 24 auction in Fontainebleau, south of Paris.
The couple married when Napoleon was a young soldier before the military and political leader's meteoric rise during the French Revolution.
An upper right canine tooth extracted from the mouth of Napoleon in 1817 sold for the hammer price of £11,000 (then $19,140) at the Dominic Winter auction in Wiltshire, UK, on 10 November 2005 making it the most expensive tooth sold at auction.
The tooth is believed to have been extracted due to scurvy (recorded in 1816) by the physician Barry O'Meara, during Napoleon's exile on the South Atlantic British island of St Helena following his defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
