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Birds, more than any other group of animals, are a celebration of color. They have evolved to every extreme of the spectrum, from the hot pink of flamingos to the shimmering blue of a peacock’s neck. Yet, for decades, paleontologists who study extinct birds have had to use their imaginations to see the colors in the fossils. Several feather fossils have been unearthed over the years, but they have always been assumed to be colorless vestiges. Now a team of scientists has discovered color-producing molecules that have survived for 47 million years in the fossil of a feather. By analyzing...

Please read and pass on. Make it's way around the U.S.A So if the government determined that it is against the law for the words" under God" to be on our money, then, so be it. And if that same government decides that the "Ten Commandments "are not to be used in or on a government installation, then so be it. And since they already have prohibited any prayer in the schools,on which they deem their authority, then so be it. I say "so be it' because I would like to think that smarter people than I are in a...