Decomposition

Trillion cigarette butts are thrown globally every year, but they do not decompose and they do interfere with plant growth, according to Independent.

The presence of butts reduces clover sprouting by 27% and stems by 28%. The weight of the roots is less by 57%.

An ideally preserved head of a wolf who died 40,000 years ago on the territory of today's Siberia was found and researched by Russian scientists, according to Reuters.

Due to the low temperatures, coat, teeth, brain and tissues have been largely preserved.

Police say the death of a man whose body was found earlier in the week shackled in chains in the sea off northern Greece was most likely the result of suicide.

A coroner's report said the corpse did not show any signs of foul play and that the cause of death was drowning.

Police found a body in an advanced state of decomposition on Tuesday at a home in the village of Ayios Dimitrios on the Ionian island of Zakynthos.

Authorities were notified by neighbors who broke into the house due to the intense smell of the decomposed body of 55-year-old Bulgarian national. 

Police seeking a toddler missing for 25 years have uncovered several ancient graves during a dig in a field on the Greek island of Kos, where he was last seen, according to reports Thursday.

It is believed that the area may have been an old burial ground.

Police said that the search for Ben Needham will continue despite discovery of the graves which could be 1500 years old.

Police searching for missing toddler Ben Needham have found evidence of “decomposition” at the Kos dig site. A detective inspector revealed that they would be closely examining an area in the olive grove behind the farmhouse where Ben disappeared. It comes as a result of soil samples being sent to the UK, since they are still being examined back at a laboratory in Aberdeen.

British media reports said Thursday that investigators on the island of Kos have evidence of decomposition during a dig to find information about Ben Needham, the toddler who went missing on the island in 1991.