Churchill Science

Pretty amazing. It seems that everywhere we look in the solar system, there are things to surprise us. The speaker in this video is a little hard to understand, but he said something very interesting – that the salt in the water, plus other discoveries they made, mean that there are the right chemicals for possibly creating life. Forget life on other planets – we should be looking for life on other moons!

We’re currently in the process of compiling the questions into a Great Book. Stay tuned!

Recently scientists found a fossil of an ancient turtle in China. They are using it to try to figure out how the first turtles grew shells. This is a picture of what the first turtles with shells might have looked like.

Click here to read the original article, from National Geographic. The name of the species is Odontochelys semitestacea.