A barn owl’s ability to hunt by hearing alone relies on exquisite variations in the structure of its feathers.
This cute animated .gif was created from an Alazar drawing: Our helpless lady cannot escape the wheel of implacable feathers! I don’t know who made the animation, but here’s the source image they were working from: It originally appeared in Alazar’s Book Of Bondage Volume I. Elsewhere on Bondage Blog: Gagged Pussy Tickling Bondage Foot […]
A large trapdoor spider preserved in McGraths Flat.
Michael Frese
Unusual red rocks in Australia are rewriting the rules on exceptional fossil sites
A research paper published online last year in Gondwana Research should have been giving creationists nightmares. It reports work by an Australian and American team of palaeontologists and geologists, led by Tara Djokic of the Australian…
Fevvers’ patent-pending plant-based feather alternative sits in a category of its own – neither synthetic nor animal-derived, and crucially, not plastic. [So far] closely resembling ostrich feathers – all the idiosyncrasies and nuances – these fine, filament-like strands are soft, layered and fluid, with a natural irregularity that catches the light and shifts with movement, mimicking the airy…
LIMA, PERU—Live Science reports that analysis of feathers discovered in a 1,000-year-old Yschma tomb in […]
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