A new firefly species, Flammarionella hehaikuni, has been discovered in Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The fossil, only the second firefly species from the Mesozoic to be identified, is estimated to have evolved aerial bioluminescence 100 million years ago. The light organ, similar to those seen in modern fireflies, is located in the beetle's abdomen and is believed to have …
A little over 150 years ago, over 30,000 hand cut and mounted samples of Indian textiles were painstakingly organised into an album series to educate and inspire commercial and design industries in India and Britain. Watson would have been pleased to walk around the ‘India in Fashion’ exhibition at the newly-opened Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai, which documents …
The genesis for the exhibit came when the late Brad Anderson, the creator of Marmaduke, donated his collection in 2018, including 16,000 original Marmaduke cartoons from 1954 to 2010, other original art, business correspondence, fan mail and books. But dogs’ personalities make them a perfect fit for the comic strip form, said exhibit curator Brian Walker. “Dogs have that eagerness, …
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