Welcome to Sunday! The top five articles of the week on our website are listed below.

A good read you may have missed: Did you know that decorative Easter eggs date back to medieval times? Or that before the Easter bunny, there was the “Easter hare”? Or that Easter always falls on the first Sunday after the first full Moon following the spring equinox?

Today is Easter, a great day to read – or reread – this Conversation classic by Brent Landau of the University of Texas Austin that unpacks little-known facts about the Christian holiday.

Emily Costello

Managing Editor

There are a lot of people, but the oceans are very big. Rosley Majid/EyeEm via Getty Images

If everyone on Earth sat in the ocean at once, how much would sea level rise?

Tony E. Wong, Rochester Institute of Technology

Even if every human being on Earth went for a dip in the ocean at the same time, they'd be just a drop in the bucket compared to the size of the planet's seas.

Hollywood has picked a winner, but what does the science say? Courtesy of Warner Bros Entertainment

Godzilla vs. Kong: A functional morphologist uses science to pick a winner

Kiersten Formoso, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Hollywood loves a good monster battle, and where better to turn for inspiration than the animal kingdom? Traits from real animals can provide clues about the fighting prowess of Kong and Godzilla.