The Great London [05/12/22] 

  • New Zealand: Medical imaging helps define Moa diet

    Medical scanners and the same software used to assess building strength after the Canterbury earthquakes, have revealed new information about the diet and dining preferences of New Zealand's extinct moa.Painting of a mummified moa head with the reconstructed muscles painted in in colours around the base of the jaws and behind the …

  • Palaeontology: Chasing after a prehistoric Kite Runner

    Scientists have discovered an ancient animal that carried its young in capsules tethered to the parent's body like tiny, swirling kites. They're naming it after "The Kite Runner," the 2003 bestselling novel.Aquilonifer spinosus, the Kite Runner, was an arthropod that lived about 430 million years ago. It carried its young in capsu…

  1. Abdera Treasure at Athens Numismatic Museum
  2. Historians discover the secrets of Cassiobury at Watford Museum
  3. Major London exhibition of Russian and Greek Icons
  4. Explore the magical ruins of Petra on Google Street View
  5. Virtual Museum of Alexander the Great on the internet