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. 'Greece of Origins: Between Dream and Archaeology' at the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale
  2. Peruvian mummy prepared for French exhibition after excavation in 2012
  3. York Viking treasure back on display after conservation
  4. 'The Dying Gaul: An Ancient Roman Masterpiece from the Capitoline Museum, Rome' at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
  5. Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind at the British Museum