Indigenous leaders exchanged gifts and wisdom about the land and animals with their French and English allies during the 16th ...

Reid Park Zoo and Mexico’s Huichol tribe collaborate to unveil new sculptures that aim to raise awareness about vanishing ...

Artists and scientists are finding ways to highlight troublesome plants and animals, tell their stories and, in some cases, ...

A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.

Cleonique is a Honduran illustrator whose art is featured in picture books, newspapers, magazines, board games and galleries.

Recently discovered paintings, illustrations, and prints by Flannery O’Connor, hidden away for decades, are now on display at the author’s alma mater.

With cute ears but a frightening jaw, the animal is also represented in sculptures Coetzee ... Her fascination with hyenas is ...

one of the first scientists to write of mimicry in animals. Some species even mimic the sounds and signals of other organisms. Birds are popular mimics in nature, and their abilities have been ...

The bold brushstrokes of Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray have long drawn collectors. Now a new generation of buyers are ...

Charlie Hall is Polygon’s tabletop editor. In 12-plus years as a journalist & photographer, he has covered simulation, strategy, and spacefaring games, as well as public policy. While there’s ...

Six of the animals are depicted in detail, while the seventh is a simple line sketch. “How necessary it is to … stick one’s head out of doors and try to read from creation, which has nothing ...

[Photo: doug/Flickr] Of course, figuring out whether something is a work of art requires answering some tricky philosophical questions. Are animals even capable of creating art? And how can we ...