A bird strike! Indeed, a beautiful, barred owl had crashed into the patio door, beak-first. Whether it had broken its neck or was merely stunned was not clear. Its breathing was deep and regular ...

For more than 3,000 years, China’s oldest-known distilled spirit remained hidden inside a bronze, owl-shaped vessel unearthed within a Shang Dynasty tomb. Discovered in 2010 in Jinan, China, the ...

The complex, and often conflicting, relationship between humans and owls ranges from reverence to superstition The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881 ...

PNAS (2025) If tattoos are prone to fading within a single human lifetime, imagine the wear-and-tear on the tattoos of 1,200-year-old mummies ... a standard #12 modern tattoo needle, probably ...