Imagine holding a piece of golden resin in your hand, only to discover that inside, time itself has been trapped—along with ...

Plan to bring your own animal for the skills portion of the Achievement Test and the special activities (no poultry allowed for 2025, we will still have achievement testing for poultry members).

Hundreds of millions of years ago, mysterious life forms called Prototaxites towered toward the sky. Believed to be the first giant organisms to thrive on dry land, some species of Prototaxites ...

Last year, we learnt that upcoming action-RPG Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is coming to Xbox Game Pass on day one in 2025 - and now the team has narrowed down that release window ahead of launch. Wuchang ...

the small pocket in the skin from which feathers grow. These early structures likely served purposes like insulation and display before being gradually reshaped by natural selection into more complex ...

Over time, natural selection shaped feathers into complex tools that ... The typical invagination that forms a feather follicle was absent. Instead, the skin developed smooth, hollow filaments – ...

"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ash deposits, which is extremely unusual," study lead author Valentina ...

or can form secondarily, during the natural alteration of volcanic glass and ash." This discovery is the first time that feathers have been found preserved in such a way, and with such high levels ...