GALLERY: Canadian scientists have announced the discovery of a fossil preserved with its last meal, a rare finding that sheds light on what the ancient ecosystem may have looked like. 9News
There have only been 20 other cases where a carnivorous dinosaur's last meal had been preserved. On Tuesday, a team of researchers from Canada, the US, the UK and China published their findings describing their discovery of a mammal foot inside the ribcage of a microraptor.
It's unclear which species of mammal the foot once belonged to. The authors note that its digits were slender, similar to the rodent-like eomaia and sinodelphys species that lived around that period. However, the bone proportions suggest that this creature may have been a land-dweller, unlike the tree-climbing eomaia and sinodelphys.Resting at the bottom of Mjøsa, the largest lake in Norway, a shipwreck from hundreds of years ago is in almost perfect condition, frozen in time.
Experts say the necklace, uncovered with other items near Northampton in central England, is part of the most significant early medieval burial of a woman ever found in the UK.But scientists say her long-buried trove will shed new light on life in seventh-century England, a time when Christianity was battling with paganism for people's allegiance.
The Kingdom of Mercia, where the Harpole Treasure was found, converted to Christianity in the 7th century, and the woman buried there was a believer, maybe a faith leader.It is adorned with tiny, astonishingly well-preserved likenesses of human heads with blue glass eyes , who may represent Christ's apostles.7 of 267Within a few decades, as Christianity took hold more widely in England, the practice of burying people with their luxury goods died out.
Once archaeologists have finished their work, the plan is for the items to be displayed in a local museum.An extremely well-preserved dinosaur fossil in China offered researchers a rare chance to look at the prehistoric predator's diet.Jurassic ParkThey are the ancestors of modern birds, and were feathered themselves.
Experts say the discovery shines new light on some of humanity's earliest use of the Canaanite alphabet, invented around 1800BCE. and the foundation of the all successive alphabetic systems, such as Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin and Cyrillic. Unlike the Vasa, whose salvaged wreck is now a Stockholm museum, the wreck of the Äpplet had long eluded marine archaeologists.Both ships were created by shipbuilder Hein Jacobsson, with Äpplet an improvement on the poor design that made the Vasa unstable, the museum said in a statement.
Analysis of the wreck found that the oak for its timber was felled in 1627 in Stockholm's Mälaren Valley, which is also where Vasa's timber was sourced. Höglund added in a statement that Äpplet will help them understand how the "large warships evolved from the unstable Vasa to seaworthy behemoths that could control the Baltic Sea — a decisive factor in Sweden's emergence as a great power in the 1600s."
Experts identified the legendary hero based on the lion hanging from his left hand and a club, which was found in fragments.On the statue's head is a wreath of vine leaves held together by a band that ends at the shoulders.The ancient city of Philippi has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2016.
The 44 gold solidi are from the reigns of Emperor Phocas and Emperor Heraclius - the time of the founding of the Umayyad Caliphate, one of the early Muslim powers of the Middle East.