This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. Two members of Congress are pressing officials for answers after NBC News ...

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A fish with a “semi-translucent,” pale pink body was seen swimming in the water ... His deeds have been preserved in the form of a song, which has been organized into the first full-length ...

The richly colored tree resin is not the only substance that can preserve priceless traces of ... the fool’s gold to replace some of the body parts after they were buried in the sediment.

“As well as having their beautiful and striking golden color, these fossils are spectacularly preserved,” study co-author and University of Oxford paleontologist Luke Parry said in a statement.

In a remote region of northern Australia, a black creature scraped some sticky resin off a plant and smeared the substance on its body. Something about the “assassin”-like animal caught the ...

Photo from Tatarnic, Chacón, and Soley (2024) In a remote region of northern Australia, a black creature scraped some sticky resin off a plant and smeared the substance on its body. Something ...