We’ve heard that a black cat in your path is bad luck, but what about a cardinal in your window? For as long as humans have had consciousness, animals, real or imagined, revered or feared, have been ...

Archaeologists uncovered 2,900-year-old Scythian animal-style art in Siberia, revealing the origins of early steppe nomadic ...

VATICAN CITY — Given the enormity of the task before them, it's no surprise that most visitors to St. Peter's Basilica completely miss some of the most curious characters in the massive church's ...

The new film "Death of a Unicorn," starring Jenna Ortega, features the mythical beast as a brutal killer. From purity to immortality, unicorns have been featured in works of art throughout the ...

In a new study published in L'Antropologie, Dr. Shirin Torkamandi and his colleagues, Dr. Marcel Otte and Dr. Abbas Motarjem have analyzed the symbolic meaning of bovidea, particularly the ibex, in ...