Both these animals are definitely real ... In 1515, German artist Albrecht Dürer created a woodcut of a rhino that would go on to be the defining image of the beast for the next 200 years.

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From Marcel Odenbach’s eclectic collages at Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, to Monica Majoli’s portraits of queer ...

Lost Gardens of London at the Garden Museum reveals sites both public and private, planted and constructed, formal and wild ...

In the tanyard, where animal skins were tanned ... The story was accompanied by woodcut illustrations, usually reserved for features, not crime stories. To create the illustrations, Hearn enlisted ...

Peter Emil Hansen Peter Emil Hansen died peacefully in his Santa Barbara home on Garden Street on October 7. He was 89. Born in 1935 to Elwood Hansen and Josephine Gasser Hansen, he spent his ...

In late 1971, the members of Aphrodite’s Child threw a party in honour of their latest album. At Paris’ Europa Sonor studios, ...

Monet’s Art Was Influenced by Ukiyo-e art Monet had an extensive collection of Japanese woodcut prints, otherwise known as ...

But what about the rest of the animal kingdom–how do non-human animals understand and respond to death? The answer depends on species, individual, and circumstance. “There’s a wide variety ...

Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival. Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that has become ...

This past spring, Harvard University evolutionary biologist Joanna Wolfe, Ph.D., was in Okinawa, Japan, gathering information for her research on carcinization, or the study of how animals take on ...

From the arid deserts of the Negev to the lush forests of Galilee, Israel is home to a variety of unusual wild animals that thrive in its diverse ecosystems. Located at the crossroads of Europe ...