The fossilized skull of a bird called Vegavis, which lived in the Antarctic some 68.7 million years ago, confirms it was an early member of the waterfowl group. However, the skull also suggests ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic Era. The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, is diving ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

The chondrogenesis and subsequent endochondral ossification observed at the mandibular condyle are regulated by various signaling molecules (Owtad et al., 2013). Indian hedgehog (Ihh) signaling ...

The average amount, 4,800 micrograms per gram of microplastics in brain tissue, was found to be equivalent to the amount found in a standard plastic spoon, according to the study. MORE ...

Tissue engineering is a set of methods that can replace or repair damaged or diseased tissues with natural, synthetic, or semisynthetic tissue mimics. These mimics can either be fully functional ...

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Light sheet fluorescence microscopy tends to be hindered by tissue-induced scattering, which deforms the light sheet itself and ... and when coupled to a pigmentless strain they were able to image the ...