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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 …
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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…
The Great London [05/12/22]
- 'The Earith Jupiter' to go on display at Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.
- US museum tells blind visitors: Please touch!
- Extremely rare skeleton and coffin go on display at JORVIK Viking Centre
- Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, Third to Seventh Century AD
- Sculptures of Stoa of Attalos in ancient Agora to be showcased