If you’re working on a project that is tearing up the skin on your fingertips ... Just use some super glue to seal the crack or hole. The last thing you want when camping is a leaking tent.

Seals didn’t frequent France’s northern coast at the time, she says. “I sent it again, and it came back as seal skin again.” Comparing DNA from five chemises with DNA from seals confirmed ...

This book is among nearly 100 found in France by researchers at the University of Cambridge to be bound with seal skin. The books belong to a French monastery from the 12th century. (Matthew ...

They had expected something like boar or deer skin, but analysis of proteins brought the surprising discovery. "It turned out the fingerprints matched seal skin," Collins said. "You're talking ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books were bound using seal skin. In their paper published in the journal Royal ...

Other than the color, the reason why the monks chose to bind their books in seal skin remains a mystery. “We have no written records to explain why monks chose to cover these manuscripts in ...