The dodo was a flightless bird that lived on the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. It is a case study of extinction caused by humans. The dodo had adapted to its isolated ecosystem ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

By Will Heinrich The central role of printmaking in five centuries of Mexican art on view at the Met shows the weight of many minds. By Will Heinrich and Patricia Escárcega The artist Barbara ...

More Halloween fun is in store on the high seas, as the Queen Mary plays host to Dark Harbor. Expect live spooks and creepy ...

an often overlooked but visionary figure who jumpstarted the careers of many of modern art's giants Julia Binswanger Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian ...

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Give birds a cosy place to rest and breed by building them a cosy nest box. Having plenty of safe places to nest will encourage birds to return to your garden year after year. This activity is about ...

Unlike many ... Newly Discovered Late Cretaceous Birds May Have Carried Heavy Prey Like Extant Raptors Oct. 9, 2024 — Newly discovered birds from Late Cretaceous North America were hawk-sized ...

Graffiti art has its origins in 1970s New York, when young people began to use spray paint and other materials to create images on buildings and on the sides of subway trains. Such graffiti can range ...

If anything, art is... about morals, about our belief in humanity. Without that, there simply is no art. Ai Weiwei The aim of activist artists is to create art that is a form of political or social ...

The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to offer free, unrestricted use of over 50,000 images of works in the collection believed to be in the public domain or to which the museum otherwise waives any ...