Using porcupine quills for artistic purposes exists nowhere else on Earth and represents one of the earliest forms of ...

Last year, when Darci Everson’s Aunty Ingrid saw a porcupine dead on the side of the road, she immediately pulled over and put the animal in an empty box that happened to be in the vehicle. The next ...

The feather-like projections on the back of the pre-dinosaur Longisquama insignis (24 March, p 8) remind me of a defensive feature of much later animals. Could these “early feathers” have acted in a ...

From porcupine quills and fruit, to silver coins and beads, the ethnic costumes on parade in Myanmar's capital this week showed off the country's diversity and added sartorial splendour to the cold ...