Birds have been around for millions of years, evolving from ancient dinosaurs into the wide variety of species we see today. But while many birds have come and gone over millennia, some have ...

Named after an Egyptian bird, Bennu contains special minerals such as salts, phosphates, ammonia and dozens of protein-building amino acids. Other than this, it also contains five nucleobases ...

The Egyptian theater in Hollywood is continuing ... And March’s is a doozy. On March 26, Brad Bird, who took home LAFCA’s prize for Best Animation for his first three animated features as ...

Bird species being mistaken for one another ... of the world—which can be thought of as a birth—in Egyptian mythology; Bennu is sometimes said to be represented by a stork, but he’s actually ...

Three years earlier NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft had grabbed these samples from the surface of the asteroid Bennu for their fateful delivery to Earth. The hope was that the coal-black material ...

A previous analysis 3 of the Bennu samples revealed the presence of hydrated silicates. These minerals probably formed in the interior of a water-filled planetesimal — the ‘parent’ body from ...

When Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites at the National Museum of Natural History, and his team began analyzing the minerals in the Bennu sample, they found something unexpected: sodium carbonate.

Bennu had been predicted to be rich in ... Michael Puzio suggesting the winning name after the Ancient Egyptian mythological bird of the same name. Advert Studying the asteroid has shown that ...

Photo from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities The cavernous corridors of an ancient Egyptian temple have long concealed a remarkable secret. Hidden beneath layers of soot, dust and bird ...

The flightless bird went extinct 700 years ago. The reconstructed DNA of a New Zealand bird that went extinct about 700 years ago could change what we know about lost species and increase the ...