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"We were enjoying a little snack of juice and biscuits on a Sunday when I saw something red on the rock... I had something ...
Jeff Koons' monumental outdoor sculpture, half-horse and half-dinosaur, will be covered with 50,000 flowering plants watered ...
Protecting Aboriginal rock art sites is important to the global community as a window into the human past, an expert in the ...
In conjunction with the installation of five sculptures along the town’s main street, the Monson Arts Gallery is hosting ...
One of those strategies is to create a concrete that “self-heals,” and in a new study, scientists used synthetic lichen to ...
Researchers theorize that an adult male dipped his finger in red ocher and intentionally used the pigment to complete the face he saw on a small granite stone ...
Trying to agree on a definition of lichens that pushes them into one of science’s neat little cubby holes has proved as difficult as trying to distinguish stone from rock. A symbiotic ...
Archaeologists discovered clusters of red ocher drawings scattered on rocks and cliffs across Canaima National Park—and have some theories on who made the mysterious art. Dots, tectiforms ...
Rock paintings around Uluru are easily damaged. Natural elements like water, rock minerals and lichens make them fade or flake off. Art sites also deteriorate when people touch the artwork or graffiti ...
Languages: English, Spanish A remarkable set of prehistoric rock art sites likely provided hunter-gatherers with an enchanting "multisensory experience" thanks to their special acoustic properties ...
In addition to putting Arctic plants in much of her artistic pieces, she also features other found items such as lichens, rocks or bone in her art. For her plant magnets made from bottle caps, the ...