A mysterious example of Indigenous rock art from South Africa may depict a "strange" animal that lived more than 200 million ...

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Though measuring animal intelligence is tricky, some animals show remarkable cognitive abilities that may rival our own.

Humor has evolved over millennia, with ancient Sumerian jokes offering a glimpse into the past. Could jokes be part of our ...

Bernard Coffindaffer, a native of Craigsville, Nicholas County, West Virginia, began erecting sets of three crosses in ...

From its origins in Arabia, the Muslim faith spread rapidly and developed a distinctive culture, including a form of art that has thrived through the centuries to be instantly recognizable ...

Contrary to what you might expect if you’ve come across tradwife TikTok, Christianity was once very queer. In fact, non-heterosexual men fundamentally influenced public religious life in the medieval ...

At Oakland’s controversial Church of Ambrosia, a mural that documents the religion’s doctrine is meant to “recreate a ...

Moo Deng the baby hippo has taken the internet by storm but this cute semiaquatic mammal has long been adored by artists.

The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles described a day trip to Giverny ... housing depictions of water lilies “at all hours of day: the pale lilac of early morning, the powdery bronze glow of midday, ...

Artificial intelligence has been advancing at a rapid clip, especially over the last three years. The potential for these ...

The literary critic, who died on Sunday at age 90, believed that reading was the path to revolution.