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A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.
It's seal season in New York. The Department of Environmental Conservation is warning all New Yorkers to admire them from ...
A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding ...
The study revealed the fur didn’t belong to boars or deer, but rather pinnipeds, or seals and walruses. More specifically, the DNA still contained in the book binding allowed researchers to narrow ...
The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...
“Seals, sea lions, walruses eat millions of tons of fish every year. It’s estimated that the harp seals alone consume 22 times what fish harvesters take from the ocean and land at our wharves,” he ...
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"This is prohibited, first, to feed a harp seal or a pup seal, to swim with a seal or interact with it, to move it or to cause it to move," said Thibault. "We all love the pups, but to make sure ...
WASHINGTON — The new A24 film “Warfare,” co-created by Navy SEAL veteran Ray Mendoza and the critically acclaimed director Alex Garland, is not just a war movie — it is an effort to ...
BRIGANTINE — Some sad news out of Brigantine. A Harp seal that was recovering at the Marine Mammal Stranding Center after being rescued from a beach in Middletown in February, has died.
Polaris the seal is a tough old bird. The adult male harp seal found on Nantasket Beach in Hull last month was deemed well enough to be released back into the ocean on Wednesday, March 19 ...