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A newly discovered cell helps pythons digest entire skeletons—and might be present in other bone-eating predators, too.
Research into the intestinal cells of Burmese pythons has revealed the existence of a previously unknown cell type, ...
Macabre crypt containing UK's highest amount of human remains is packed with skulls The creepy crypt lies beneath the floors of St Leonard's Church in Hythe, Kent, and is home to Britain's largest ...
The crypt is what’s known as a memento mori (Latin for “remember you will die”), a physical reminder that life is finite and that we all have an appointment with Death. Your appointment may ...
This strange, skull- and skeleton-­filled place made me wonder: Could the ugliness of death be transformed into something beautiful? The bone installations at the Capuchin Crypt are not the work of ...
Ancient 'Dragon Man' skull from China isn't what we thought Inscriptions engraved on the stone chest that the model was found in say that it was constructed during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong (A ...
His skull was removed from the crypt 38 years after he died. | Getty Images. McDiarmid was one of a group of men determined to have Burns analysed using the-then fashionable science of phrenology.