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Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Clean bill of health for giant bird skeleton
The giant skeletal remains of a rare bird stored at Leeds Museum have been given a clean bill of health by curators. The skeleton of the heavy-footed moa, an enormous flightless bird which once roamed parts of New Zealand 570 years ago, were first brought to the city in 1868. At the time the skeleton was the only example of the species in the country outside the British Museum in London. The remains have now been carefully cleaned by experts and checked over for signs of deterioration to ensure the bird can continue to be seen by future generations. According to Leeds Museum, the bird was brought to West Yorkshire after it was acquired by Henry Denny, the then curator of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. Like many objects in the Leeds collection, it was damaged in 1941 after Philosophical Hall - then the city's museum - was bombed during World War II. In 2011 curators rediscovered the bird's bones and, after a full restoration, they were put on display in the Leeds City Museum's collectors cabinet. Driven to extinction by hunting and deforestation around 570 years ago, the species was one of the largest birds which ever existed, standing almost 6ft (1.8m) tall and weighing more than 300 lbs (136kg). Clare Brown, Leeds Museums and Galleries' curator of natural sciences, said: "The moa is a truly historic specimen which really captures the imagination and brings a completely different world inhabited by extinct and bizarre giants to life. "Having animals like this on display is not only a fascinating glimpse into a bygone era, it's a thought-provoking reminder of our responsibility to do what we can to protect the natural world both now and in the future." The moa is one of a number of extinct species on display at the museum including a dodo and giant Irish elk. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North. More stories like this Rare butterfly collection goes on display Museum launches 'choose your own price' admission Stuffed hippo helps reveal science of whiskers
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
USA Bobsled and Skeleton signs endorsement deal with Honda through 2030 Olympics
USA Bobsled and Skeleton has entered into a multi-year endorsement deal with American Honda, one that will give the sliding sports federation financial and technical support going into both next winter's Milan-Cortina Olympics and the 2030 Games in the French Alps. The deal, announced Wednesday, has been in the works for some time. Honda — which becomes the official premier technology partner of the teams — will give USABS, among other things, access to its wind tunnel in Ohio for research and development purposes. Such access is crucial when determining optimal sled positioning and other aerodynamic factors in sports where one-hundredth of a second can be the difference between winning and losing. Eventually, the partnership will evolve into sled design as well. 'Long term, they'll be playing a role in helping us design bobsleds," USABS CEO Aron McGuire told The Associated Press. "We'll be looking at building four-man sleds initially. They will be providing the aerodynamic expertise and providing us insights, recommendations, into how we can best design a sled as it relates to other factors, like safety of the athletes sitting in the sled and the performance side of the design.' The teams will also have Acura logos on their sleds for all competitions through the 2030 Games. 'In sports where sleds can reach speeds of over 90 miles per hour and the difference between first and last can be measured in fractions of a second, our Honda engineers are eager to apply their engineering skills and racing background to the USABS programs," said Larry Geise, the executive vice president of Honda Development & Manufacturing of America. Financial specifics were not disclosed, but the deal is one of the more significant in USABS history. 'It's at the top of the cash partners that we've had,' McGuire said. The news comes at a key time for the programs, with the next Olympics just seven months away. The U.S. has legitimate medal hopes in bobsled and skeleton going into Milan-Cortina; Kaysha Love is the reigning women's monobob champion, women's pilots Kaillie Humphries Armbruster and Elana Meyers Taylor are the two most decorated female drivers in Olympic history, and the American duo of Austin Florian and Mystique Ro won a gold medal in the new mixed team skeleton discipline at the world championships earlier this year. ___ AP sports: Tim Reynolds, The Associated Press Error while retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data
The Independent
16-07-2025
- Automotive
- The Independent
USA Bobsled and Skeleton signs endorsement deal with Honda through 2030 Olympics
USA Bobsled and Skeleton has entered into a multi-year endorsement deal with American Honda, one that will give the sliding sports federation financial and technical support going into both next winter's Milan-Cortina Olympics and the 2030 Games in the French Alps. The deal, announced Wednesday, has been in the works for some time. Honda — which becomes the official premier technology partner of the teams — will give USABS, among other things, access to its wind tunnel in Ohio for research and development purposes. Such access is crucial when determining optimal sled positioning and other aerodynamic factors in sports where one-hundredth of a second can be the difference between winning and losing. Eventually, the partnership will evolve into sled design as well. 'Long term, they'll be playing a role in helping us design bobsleds," USABS CEO Aron McGuire told The Associated Press. "We'll be looking at building four-man sleds initially. They will be providing the aerodynamic expertise and providing us insights, recommendations, into how we can best design a sled as it relates to other factors, like safety of the athletes sitting in the sled and the performance side of the design.' The teams will also have Acura logos on their sleds for all competitions through the 2030 Games. 'In sports where sleds can reach speeds of over 90 miles per hour and the difference between first and last can be measured in fractions of a second, our Honda engineers are eager to apply their engineering skills and racing background to the USABS programs," said Larry Geise, the executive vice president of Honda Development & Manufacturing of America. Financial specifics were not disclosed, but the deal is one of the more significant in USABS history. 'It's at the top of the cash partners that we've had,' McGuire said. The news comes at a key time for the programs, with the next Olympics just seven months away. The U.S. has legitimate medal hopes in bobsled and skeleton going into Milan-Cortina; Kaysha Love is the reigning women's monobob champion, women's pilots Kaillie Humphries Armbruster and Elana Meyers Taylor are the two most decorated female drivers in Olympic history, and the American duo of Austin Florian and Mystique Ro won a gold medal in the new mixed team skeleton discipline at the world championships earlier this year. ___
BBC News
11-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Weston has 'pressure' and 'confidence' for Olympics
Skeleton champion Matt Weston says he feels both "pressure" and "confidence" going into next February's Winter Olympics as world number won his second world title at Lake Placid in March after defending his overall World Cup title in February, and sits at the top of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) world Milano Cortina Winter Olympics will take place in and around Milan, Italy, from 6-22 February 2026."I definitely feel a bit of pressure going into this games as world number one," Weston told BBC Radio Somerset."It carries some pressure with it but at the same time it carries some confidence. You get a heightened version of both." Next year will be his second Winter Olympics after he finished 15th in Beijing in 2022 just two years after making his World Cup race debut. He represented England in taekwondo when he was a teenager and also played rugby until discovering skeleton via a talent spotting January 2023 he won the European Championships and followed it two weeks later with his debut world title - Great Britain's first since for nine years."When I first won the World Championships I was still relatively an underdog, I was still unexpected. That season with a massive breakthrough season for me," Weston said. "The next season the whole dynamic changed, I did become the guy with the target on my back, I did become that guy that everyone was chasing down. "That was hard for me to adjust to and deal with it and the different pressures that brings, but I'm got pretty used to it. I've turned it into something I enjoy and quite like." Weston, from Surrey, is part of the wider skeleton and bobsleigh Great Britain team based at the University of Marcus Wyatt won silver behind him at the World Championships two months ago and Weston believes the strength in the squad is pushing all athletes on."We're so highly competitive, we're so driven, we're so motivated for this that that almost becomes the environment which is amazing. It feels really special to be part of a group like that," Weston said."It's not just one person having ok success, it's the whole squad having great success and that's the reason I'm in the position I am today, it's the whole team around me."Next up for Weston is a pre-season trip to Norway before he heads to Innsbruck, Austria, and then Milan to train on the Winter Olympics track for the first time. "[It is] hectic from as soon as I step on that plane at the end of September, start of October, right up until I'm on the start line in Milan," Weston said."I'm looking to come home with the gold medal, that's all I'm thinking of at the moment."
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
These 65 Absolutely Mind-Blowing Photos Just Completely And Totally Shattered My Entire View Of The World Last Month
snapped the day before his death, is one of the last pictures ever taken of Pope Francis: here's what Pope Francis looked like as a young man: Popes: they were once young! Who'da thunk it. is what Niagara falls looks like from way, way above: Would ya look at that. my friends, is what a pregnant horse looks like: I am still searching for what a horse baby shower looks like. I imagine it's delightful. is what a human skeleton looks like next to a gorilla's skeleton: Feel free to pull this image up in your next "Yo Mama" debate on the playground. is Fernand Meyssonnier, France's last executioner, standing next to one of the guillotines he used on the job: Someone was executed by guillotine as recently as 1977 in France. The death penalty has since been abolished. here's a mask an executioner would typically wear: Not creepy at all. is what the USS Midway looks like compared to a person in a kayak: This makes me feel very relaxed. Just kidding. is what the bottom of the deepest trench on Earth, the Mariana Trench, looks like: Imagine being the guy responsible for the trash at the literal deepest part of the ocean. the mid-80s, the Statue of Liberty was completely covered in scafolding while being renovated: A pigeon's dream come true. 2.5 MILLION people attended Lady Gaga's show in Brazil last month. Here's what millions of people in one place looks like: I have to pee just thinking about it. Here's another angle: Again, my bladder hurts. comparison of the graphics of Grand Theft Auto V and the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI has been making the rounds. The jump in graphical fidelity is incredible: What a different 13 years makes. is what an x-ray of a baby's hand looks like: A comforting thought. 1731, King Frederick I of Sweden was gifted with a lion that, after its death, he sent to be stuffed and preserved. The only issue was that the people doing the taxidermy had never actually seen a lion. This, the Lion of Gripsholm Castle, is the finished product: Juuuuuust a bit off. of terrible taxidermy and fossil reconstruction, this is the Magdeburg Unicorn, quite possibly the worst fossil reconstruction ever: It was probably done by Otto von Guericke, who thought he had found the remains of a unicorn. Turns out he'd just mixed and matched the bones of a rhinoceros, a mammoth, and a narwhal. is Steven Spielberg on top of Bruce, the animatronic shark that, well, played Jaws in Jaws: And now I'm realizing why the shark in Finding Nemo was named what it was. Here's a look at the full Jaws fake-shark rig: 2001, there was a huge dust storm on Mars that obscured the whole planet from the outside: Imagine leaving your windows open on Mars that day. is what a lizard getting a CT scan looks like: Stay strong, l'il fellah. is the one-time record holder for world's heaviest hamburger: Are the tomatoes really necessary? They're not even that heavy. scars don't sweat, so dirt doesn't stick to them: That's one way to stay clean. quarters can be very, very tiny: They were made by the Franklin Mint in the 1980s. Related: "I Know You Aren't Trying To Hurt Me." Doctors, Nurses, And First Responders Are Revealing The Most "Haunting" Last Words They've Heard From A Patient is what a World War II combat helmet looks like compared to a World War I combat helmet: Here's the other side of the helmets: I'm taking the World War II helmet for anything combat-related and the World War I helmet for anything heaping-bowl-of-soup-related. is what the first iPhone's camera looks like compared to a recent iPhone's camera: What is this... a camera for ants? is what a nuclear warhead looks like: Looks like the next water bottle TikTok is going to convince half the world to buy. 1924, a game of Human Chess was played in the Soviet Union: You know, if you weren't able to watch Babe Ruth hit 46 homeruns back then, you had to find some other way to entertain yourself. is what a four person see-saw looks like: That's a little busy. libraries let you know just how much money you save by going to them: Let's hear it for 'braries, folks. is what a golf course green that's been struck by lightning looks like: Or when my approach shot from 65 yards at hits the screen and bounces directly into the woods behind it. is what a Coke bottle from 48 years ago looked like: It was intentionally a throwback design for Coke's anniversary. original Pledge of Allegiance didn't include "under God": This was changed by Dwight Eisenhower during the Cold War, for, of course, Cold War reasons. year 2025 is the first year that's a square number since 1936: And you will almost certainly be long dead before the next one. Have a nice day! Related: 26 People Who Had Overwhelming Gut Instincts They Couldn't Were Right is "Boy Samson," the 14-year-old "strongest boy in the world" holding up a grown man on a motorcycle circa 1932: Today, that very same boy might have a Podcast. The mind reels. is how much it cost to buy a whole bunch of groceries in 1988, almost 40 years ago: Today that'll get you about two and half bell peppers. is what the first class menu looked like on the Titanic the day the ship sunk: No chicken tenders? No thanks. this is what the Second Class menu looked like that same day: Some similarities to the first class menu, but overall very, very different. for good measure, this is what the third class menu looked like that day so many of them tragically died: Literally getting served "GRUEL." is what the World Trade Center looked like at the very beginning of its construction: Construction began in 1966 and was finished in 1971. is what a fusion reactor looks like compared to a person: This particular reactor is located in China and set a record "160 million degrees celsius for 20 seconds." is Igor Sikorsky, inventor of the world's first "practical" helicopter, getting ready to take off in his contraption: This was in 1939. And here he is in the air: My guy Igor CHILLIN' up there. playgrounds have special "wheelchair only" swings: Love it! is Norwegian speed skater Oscar Mathisen pictured with his many, many, many, many awards and honors throughout the early 1900s: He set numerous world records, some even apparently lasting until the 21st century. is what a pair of maraschino cherries put through a dishwasher looks like: Now you have officially seen everything. a scientist testing out a hands-free shaving machine that used robotic arms: Okay, it was actually meant to be used with radioactive material, but shaving is a cool second use-case. my boy... strawberries can be very, very big: Nature is beautiful. dogs? Dogs can be gigantic: Who's a good... man? frogs, my boy... frogs can be very, very tiny: Now you know. Use this knowledge wisely. is a group of World War I soldiers creating a "Human Liberty Bell" at Camp Dix in 1918: This is what people did before iPhones. is 17-year-old Bryn Owen and his, frankly, ludicrous amount of mirrors on his Vespa: Every single source I've seen containing this picture points out that he used his own "pocket money." Now you know. a scene from the 1924 Olympics gold medal hockey game between the USA and Canada: Canada won 6-1. is what Meryal Waterpark, home of the world's tallest waterslide, looking like while it was under construction in Qatar: I can feel the wedgies just looking at this picture. is what Earth looks like from 3.7 billion miles away: To paraphrase the big man Carl Sagan, everyone and everything you have ever known exists on that little speck. is what the grave of HR Giger, creator of the design of the alien from Alien, looks like: Commitment to the very end. of which, the new Pope Leo went to a World Series game in 2005 and was caught on TV: Slacking off there, Leo. Should've been Pope-ing. is what caffeine looks like under a microscope: Looks about right. is Henry Behrens, at one time the world's smallest man, doing a little tango with a cat: He stood 30 inches tall, and, we can safely assume, was one heck of a dancer. is planet J1407b, a, I quote, "Super-saturn" with "over 30 rings, each stretching over tens of millions of kilometers in diameter:" It's hundreds of times bigger than the Saturn we all know and love. is what the remains of a World War I trench looks like today: These trenches date back to the Battle of the Somme and are located in Newfoundland Memorial Park near Albert, France. picture, from the early 1900s, shows an early basketball game, kneepads and all: Josh Hart would make that man CRY. another photo of a vintage basketball player, standing in front of a piano and striking fear into the hearts of his opponents: I think Jalen Brunson could put up 176 on this dude. is what Stephen Hawking's grave looks like: It reads "Here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking." isn't a fake picture of your worst "driving nightmare." It's the Hisashimichi Interchange, located near Tokyo, perhaps one of the most complicated roads in the world: I'll walk, thanks. is what the nerve inside a tooth looks like: (Cartoon cat slamming his finger inside a door voice) YEEEEE-OUCH! is what the knots on the outside of a tree look like on the inside: Neat! medicine used to be very, very, very strong: Add some melatonin to that baby and you might never wake up. there's a copperhead snake in this picture. Can you find it? Well, can you? Also in Internet Finds: 51 Wildly Fascinating Photos Of Disorders, Injuries, And Variations In The Human Body That I Cannot Stop Staring At Also in Internet Finds: 23 People Who Tried Their Best, But Crapped The Bed So Bad Also in Internet Finds: 27 Grown-Ass Adults Who Threw Such Unbelievable Temper Tantrums, Even The Brattiest Toddler Couldn't Compete
