Dinosaur skull scans reveal clues about flight and communication
X-ray images are revealing how these ancient animals moved through the world, what they could hear and see, and even how their young likely chirped.
A dinosaur of the genus Shuvuuia, which lived during the Cretaceous period in what is now Mongolia, had eyes and ears that suggest it hunted at night.Illustration by Viktor Radermaker
ByRiley Black
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It’s a golden age for paleontology: In recent years, scientists have gathered all kinds of clues about the way dinosaurs looked and lived, from awe-inspiring fossil reconstructions to preserved footprints and bite marks on bones. Now, paleontologists are showing that some of the most tantalizing indications of how these extinct animals behaved are enclosed inside their skulls.
By City News Service
May 5, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health is hosting a monthlong series of free community programs and events to highlight the healing power of art and connection for residents of all ages.
The initiative, in its fourth year, is called WE RISE.
Dr. Jonathan Sherin, who heads the Department of Mental Health underscored the importance of reaching out to others.
“Connectedness is vital to mental health and wellbeing, more so now than ever as we begin recovering from the multiple collective traumas experienced across our county this past year, Sherin said, calling WE RISE a “heart-forward opportunity and movement built to empower our diverse communities to come together for strength and healing.
Julie Mehretu
Until 8 August at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, Manhattan
Julie Mehretu’s massive mid-career survey which has travelled from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art includes more than 70 paintings and works on paper that date from 1996 to today. It offers a chance for viewers to track the progression of Mehretu’s style from early pieces that focus more heavily on mapping and drawing to her sprawling abstractions with innumerable layers of visual information. Some of the most recent works on view also smartly deal with contemporary social issues, as the process begins with photographs one started with police in riot gear following the killing of Michael Brown, for example, while another began with images of climate change-related firescapes. These images are then blurred and erased beyond recognition before paint and other materials are stacked on, and are then sanded and erased, creating a pentimento surface where older layers peer through
About This Lot
Born in 1970 in Trinidad, Cuba, Alexandre Arrechea was an original member between 1991 and 2003 of the collective Los Carpinteros, along with Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez, renowned for their reproductions of simple objects in structural and delicate style on paper. After departing from the group, Arrechea continued their key method of impeccable draftsmanship and sensitive attention to the boundaries of material form, while beginning to address political issues at once both more directly and conceptually. Fascinated by contemporary cultural dynamics and interdisciplinary opportunities to explore socio-economic diversity, race, and the physics of urban life, he has taken on both public and private space to communicate an epic sense of human environments in real time. Arrechea has exhibited with Galeria Nara Roesler in Rio de Janeiro and New York, in the Gwangju Biennale (2018), at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami, the Bronx Museum of Arts in New York,