Kids discover giant penguin’s fossil skeleton in New Zealand

Kids discover giant penguin’s fossil skeleton in New Zealand | Rare Bronze Age coffin uncovered on UK golf course | Mysterious stone balls found in Neolithic tomb on remote Scottish island Created for {EMAIL} | [Web Version]( September 16, 2021 CONNECT WITH LIVESCIENCE  [Facebook]( [Twitter](  [LIVESCIENCE]( [LIVESCIENCE]( Amazing science every day [SIGN UP]( ⋅ [WEBSITE](  [] Top Science News [] [Kids discover giant penguin’s fossil skeleton in New Zealand]( [Kids discover giant penguin’s fossil skeleton in New Zealand]( (Simone Giovanardi) What's black and white and the size of a 10-year-old child? A giant, extinct penguin that lived between 27 million and 35 million years ago in what is now New Zealand. The enormous diving bird stood about 4.5 feet (1.4 meters) tall and had unusually long legs and beak for a penguin, according to scientists who recently described it as a newfound species. It was discovered in 2006 by fossil-hunting students with the Hamilton Junior Naturalist Club (JUNATS), a natural history club in Hamilton, New Zealand, for children ages 10 to 18. Full Story: [LiveScience]( (9/16) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] History & Archaeology [] [Rare Bronze Age coffin uncovered on UK golf course]( [Rare Bronze Age coffin uncovered on UK golf course]( (York Archaeological Trust) About 4,000 years ago, an elite Bronze Age man was buried with an ax in a hollowed-out log coffin. Now, archaeologists have announced the discovery of this coffin, which was found in an unexpected spot: a golf course pond in the county of Lincolnshire, in the United Kingdom. The wooden-handled ax and the unique burial indicate that the man was a high-status individual. After the man's contemporaries dug out a tree trunk slightly longer than a modern telephone booth, they filled it with plants to cushion his body. Then, they interred the man's remains with the ax and built a gravel mound over the burial — a practice reserved for elite Bronze Age individuals, archaeologists said in a statement released last week. Full Story: [LiveScience]( (9/16) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [Mysterious stone balls found in Neolithic tomb on remote Scottish island]( [Mysterious stone balls found in Neolithic tomb on remote Scottish island]( (University of Central Lancashire) Two polished stone balls shaped about 5,500 years ago — linked to a mysterious practice almost unique to Neolithic Britain — have been discovered in an ancient tomb on the island of Sanday, in the Orkney Islands north of mainland Scotland. Hundreds of similar stone balls, each about the size of a baseball, have been found at Neolithic sites mainly in Scotland and the Orkney Islands, but also in England, Ireland and Norway, Live Science previously reported. Some are ornately carved — such as the famous Towie ball discovered in northeast Scotland in 1860 — but others are studded with projections or smoothly polished. Full Story: [LiveScience]( (9/15) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Amazing Earth [] [Giant ice sheet towers over Scottish city like the Wall in 'Game of Thrones' in stunning video reconstruction]( [Giant ice sheet towers over Scottish city like the Wall in 'Game of Thrones' in stunning video reconstruction]( (Kieran J. Duncan) A stunning new video shows the giant ice sheet that molded the Scottish landscape during the last ice age, and it looks like something out of "Game of Thrones." The film recreates how the 0.6-mile-thick (1 kilometer) glacier would have looked atop the modern-day city of Dundee. The glacier looms over the city like the "Game of Thrones" series' immense ice Wall towers over the stronghold Castle Black. Kieran Duncan, a lecturer in communication design at the University of Dundee in Scotland, created the video with Max Van Wyk de Vries, a glaciologist at the University of Minnesota. They included the 571-foot-tall (174 meters) Dundee Law hill, a local Dundee landmark about as tall as the Washington Monument (555 feet, or 169 m tall), to illustrate the glacier's size. Full Story: [LiveScience]( (9/15) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Your Health [] - [Read an excerpt from 'Pump: A Natural History of the Heart']( [] Astronomy & Astrophysics [] [A 10-billion-year-old supernova will soon replay before our eyes, new dark matter study predicts]( [A 10-billion-year-old supernova will soon replay before our eyes, new dark matter study predicts]( (NASA/ Joseph DePasquale) The universe is an endless expanse of mystery, majesty and mind-blowing spectacle. So why, a few years from now, is the cosmos airing a "rerun" of a supernova explosion that we already watched in 2016? Known as Supernova Requiem, the faint glint of an ancient, 10 billion-year-old explosion is expected to reappear in the sky sometime around the year 2037 — even after the same light source already smiled for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope three times in 2016. The reason for this cosmic rerun doesn't have anything to do with the supernova itself, research published Sept. 13 in the journal Nature Astronomy suggests, but with the gargantuan cluster of galaxies that the nova's light has to pass by on its way to Earth. Full Story: [LiveScience]( (9/16) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Curious Creatures [] [Human remains found inside 500-pound alligator. How common are alligator attacks?]( [Human remains found inside 500-pound alligator. How common are alligator attacks?]( (tobiasfrei / iStock / Getty Images Plus) An enormous alligator is suspected of killing a man in Louisiana, according to news reports. Officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries recently captured the alligator around the neighborhood of Avery Estates, not far from where 71-year-old Timothy Satterlee Sr. went missing on Aug. 30, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office wrote on its Facebook page. The 12-foot-long (3.7 meters), 504-pound (229 kilograms) alligator had "what appears to be human remains inside its stomach," according to the post. How common are such tragic alligator attacks? Full Story: [LiveScience]( (9/16) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [Why do primates carry around dead infants?]( [Why do primates carry around dead infants?]( (Alecia Carter) Sometimes when ape or monkey infants die, their mothers continue to groom and hold the tiny corpses for days, weeks or months, even as the babies' bodies decay or become mummified. That distressing behavior is more widespread than previously thought, a new study finds. Researchers recently conducted the first analysis to compare more than 400 documented cases of primate mothers interacting with their dead infants, collecting examples from more than a century of observations covering 50 primate species. The scientists then created "the largest database of primate mothers' responses to their infants' death," they wrote in a new study. They also discovered that factors such as the mother's and infant's ages, and the suddenness of the youngster's death could shape a mother's actions toward her infant after it died. Full Story: [LiveScience]( (9/15) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Daily Quiz [] POLL QUESTION: What's the rarest blood type? 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