New African Masquerades ... The face was inspired by the Scream mask from the movie. The Scream mask represents a skull. There is a classic belief in West Cameroon culture that focuses on the ...

The secretary bird may look like it’s dressed for a fancy party, but as an unlucky jackal learned, this bird is not a very ...

Taxidermist Ray Murawski moved his hand along the back of a black bear rug he had laid out on a table in the back of his shop ...

It may be a politically incorrect to say it, but desperate times require words commensurate with the existential threat of ...

Yet his weary eyes brighten when he talks about the history behind his small museum, a dim enclave in the French Quarter half a block off Bourbon Street that holds a musty jumble of wooden masks ...

Finally, he put on a mask and goggles, unboxed the circular ... “I was determined to be a wildlife vet in Africa,” he said. One summer in college, he got a job with a researcher who was ...

Chinese artist Guo Zhenming, known for commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, has been fined 75,000 yuan (US $10,300) and ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate. Dart was ...

Curators and museum officials collaborated with the men who made the spectacular masquerades. "We thought, ‘Let's work with ...