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Typically, females appear less colorful than males; this adaptation helps protect females from predators. Such an adaptation ...

San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) mascot S.J. Sharkie (@officialsjsharkie) has been announced as an inductee into the 2025 Mascot Hall of Fame (MHOF).

A seagull was marked with a swastika at a prison in Newport, England and arrived at a wild bird sanctuary with some its ...

A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

In 1827, naturalist John Audubon announced a massive discovery: the largest North American eagle. But did the Washington sea ...

There, hummingbird feathers take the role of paint, but also have capacities that go well beyond what paint can do. Bass: The German artist Albrecht Dürer famously made a trip from Nuremberg to the ...

She estimated she’s completed about 30 of these projects, having used the turkey feathers for shortly more than a year. “It just depends on the picture I intend to paint, as to which feather I ...

His duet with Lainey Wilson is “Feather in My Hat,” and he says his ... I’ve always known that I have the responsibility to paint them in an accurate light, and this is about as accurate ...

“These powers of central Mexico reached into the Maya world because they saw it as a place of extraordinary wealth, of special feathers from ... say someone built and painted the altar.

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