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Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert has a bone to pick with the Ohio Supreme Court over its ruling in a boneless chicken wing case.—
Laura A. Bischoff,
The Enquirer,
15 Aug. 2024 End-Triassic sediments also contain an abundance of insect remains—pieces of legs, butterfly wing scales, and a lot of beetle wing cases.—
Howard Lee,
Ars Technica,
8 Feb. 2023 This oddball strategy seems to work for the jewel beetle (Sternocera aequisignata), a super-sparkly insect famous for the dazzling, emerald-toned wing case that adorns its exterior.—
Katherine J. Wu,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 Jan. 2020 Birds were up to three times less likely to find worms in the iridescent wing cases than in the noniridescent ones, the team reports today in Current Biology.—
Rodrigo Pérez Ortega,
Science | AAAS,
23 Jan. 2020 So too are the birds-head earrings and the gown embroidered with iridescent beetle-wing cases.—
Susan Delson,
WSJ,
20 Apr. 2018