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A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding ...

At the end of the ninth century, a group of Roman Catholic monks in France struck out on their own. Dissatisfied with the rules of the Benedictine abbey they called home, they created the Cistercian ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

The December clearing of the Butterfly Greenway in Charlottesville left birds without shelter and food in subfreezing ...