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February 10, 20244min readThe songbirds in your backyard hop around on such itty-bitty legs. Here’s why bird legs are so skinny and how they can support a bird’s weightBy Asher ElbeinSplendid Fairy-wren (Malurus splendens). A bird in flight is poetry; a bird on the ground presents a conundrum. Watch a sparrow or other songbird bobbing and scratching around the forest floor and it’s easy to wonder: How do they support their weight on such skinny little legs?The first reason bird legs look strangely thin is that the rest…

O. megalodon, my megalodon. The gargantuan shark that prowled the Miocene seas has long captured the imagination because of its stupendous 60-foot length—three times the size of the largest great white sharks. But now, a team of researchers suggests that the extinct apex predator’s body shape was slightly different than expected.Forget Collars—There's a Kinder Way to Track Polar Bears in the ArcticThe enormous O. megalodon went extinct around 3.6 million years ago. Newborn megalodons were 6 feet long and may have had an…

When architect Simon Storey’s clients took him to a steep lot of undeveloped land for sale in Silver Lake, he advised them to pass. Storey’s firm, Anonymous Architects, is used to building on difficult sites, but he knew this particular lot would be especially challenging.“It’s more difficult and more time-consuming,” says Storey.The lot lingered on the market for a few years and then the asking price dropped. That’s when Storey and his wife, Jen Holmes, decided they were willing to take on the difficult ground-up…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJane Fonda has recalled an unforgettable “moonlit night” spent skinny-dipping with the late Michael Jackson.On Monday’s (15 May) episode of Watch What Happens Live, the acting legend appeared alongside her Book Club: The Next Chapter co-stars Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen to promote their new movie.During the show, Fonda, 85, was chosen to play host Andy Cohen’s “Plead the Fifth”…

‘Every problem you have is down there when you’re up here,” says Doya Beardmore, AKA Skinny Pelembe, overlooking his home town of Doncaster.This hillside is key to his new album, Hardly the Same Snake, its exact position revealed in morse code during one song and via clues in the artwork. He came here to de-stress when his dad was ill, before he died, and he would love to lead his listeners here via the album for a special gig. “I bet only two fucking mega-fans would turn up,” he laughs.Beyond Doncaster, Beardmore’s roots…

Doncaster experimentalist Skinny Pelembe is precisely the type of act that should thrive in our streaming age, when listeners enjoy genre-hopping more than ever. Brought up imbibing Afrobeat, bossa nova, rock, dub, country, hip-hop and more, he has never shied away from decanting everything he has absorbed into his music. It’s just that, as with his 2019 debut, Dreaming Is Dead Now, he can’t quite marshal his many decent ideas into a compelling whole.The singles Don’t Be Another and Like a Heart Won’t Beat are both…

The 2019 release of the first image of a black hole was hailed as a significant scientific achievement. But truth be told, it was a bit blurry - or, as one astrophysicist involved in the effort called it, a "fuzzy orange donut."Scientists on Thursday unveiled a new and improved image of this black hole - a behemoth at the center of a nearby galaxy - mining the same data used for the earlier one but improving its resolution by employing image reconstruction algorithms to fill in gaps in the original telescope…

Fans are still obsessed with Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber’s relationship. Recently, a post claiming Gomez’s weight was affected by her relationship with Justin Bieber is getting viral on social media. The clip featured a montage of throwback photos of Selena. On the montage video, it was claimed that, “The reason why Selena is always skinny when she dates Justin.” Meanwhile, in the caption, the creator claimed Justin rathers models” and pitied Selena calling her, “My poor baby.” However, the ‘Same Old Love’ singer…

Image via Warner Bros Pierce Brosnan appears as Dr. Fate in Black Adam, and he’s gone into a little bit of detail around the process behind bringing the character to life. As it turns out, the James Bond actor is a little bit self-conscious of his ankles, bless him – and he was thankful that Warner Bros.’ CGI efforts managed to bury that insecurity in the final product that we see onscreen.  Brosnan detailed the intricacies behind his costume, noting that there were two versions of Dr. Fate’s helmet used during…

It has been revealed that Beyoncé called out 2002’s Austin Powers in Goldmember movie poster after it made her look “too skinny”.The global superstar was 19 when she featured as Foxxy Cleopatra, an FBI agent who had been previously romantically involved with Mike Myers’ Austin Powers, in his movie spoof of James Bond. Speaking to Vulture on the 20th anniversary of the film’s release, the movie’s makeup artist Kate Biscoe explained that the movie poster was edited at the request of Beyoncé to show more of her curves. “When…