Among the most popular books of the time, bestiaries were filled with real and mythical animals and their lore, the ...

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was ...

The smallest mammals on Earth prove that survival, agility, and a voracious appetite have nothing to do with scale.

An Ice Age giant was tumbling around North America during the Late Pleistocene. About the size of a bear, it was actually a ...