16 August - 22 August 2026
Starting 16 August 2026
Ancient Austronesian seafarers carried symbolic art 4,000 years agoA painted stone found on a remote Indonesian island shows ancient sailors carried their art across the sea.- 🏝️ Explorers found a very old painted stone on a faraway island in Indonesia.
- 🎨 The stone is 4,000 years old and has a pretty red sun shaped pattern painted on it.
- ⛵ Scientists think ancient sailors carried this kind of art with them as they traveled to new islands.
- 🏺 Surprisingly, this painting is older than the pottery that was found in the same area.
- 🌏 It helps us understand how people explored the seas a long, long time ago.
One in a million sea creature fossil preserves soft tissue for 450 million yearsSoft body parts of an ancient sea creature survived inside rock, which almost never happens.- 🔬 Scientists found something amazing hiding inside a very, very old fossil.
- 🦴 The fossil is from a sea creature called a crinoid, and it is 450 million years old.
- 🦕 That means it lived more than 200 million years before the first dinosaurs ever walked the Earth.
- ✨ Soft, squishy parts of the creature were kept safe inside the rock, which almost never happens.
- 🎊 Scientists say finding this is like winning the lottery, because it is one in a million.
🎉 Fun Fact!
Crinoids, the sea creatures in the fossil, are still alive today! You can find them in deep oceans. Scientists call them living fossils because they look almost the same as they did hundreds of millions of years ago. 🌊
