Churchill Science

A fossilized snake skeleton was discovered in Colombia. It was big enough to eat a cow! Don’t worry, it’s extinct now.

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.

Kids always like to ask me, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” Last year it was up on the Great Wall of Questions and we got a lot of different opinions about it.

This is a picture of a dinosaur nest from the news today. Can you see where the eggs were? Are those brown pieces from the egg shells?

Looks like there were eggs before there were chickens!

Clicking the picture brings you to the original article.

Lisa thinks this question is asking about the first fully human child. But there are other ways to think about it too…