Tag Archives: Ritual

Credit:  Biswarup Ganguly. In a clinic in Jaipur, a low, resonant note from a conch shell echoed through the room—and it’s all for an unlikely therapy. Researchers in India say shankh blowing—an ancient yogic practice of exhaling forcefully into a spiral-shaped conch—may help people with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a disorder that causes repeated pauses in breathing during sleep. In …

In a groundbreaking discovery at Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado, scientists have unearthed evidence of a unique form of courtship behavior among theropod dinosaurs, relatives of the famous Tyrannosaurus rex. This new find, as reported by Live Science, suggests that these prehistoric creatures used a kind of “moonwalk” to impress potential mates around 100 million years ago. The discovery, published in Cretaceous …