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. 100 years of the discovery of the Great Temple celebrated with an exhibition in Mexico
  2. The Aztec Sun Stone used to calculate time of human sacrifices
  3. 'Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  4. National Museum Cardiff announces exhibition of ancient rock carvings from Dazu, China
  5. 5,000 images of the Dead Sea Scrolls go online