President Lee Jae Myung gave Chinese President Xi Jinping a traditional painting symbolizing peace and prosperity as a gift ...

An archaeologist has uncovered a 200-year-old rock painting that depicts an ancient, horned serpent roaming across the land. This discovery adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests this ...

When the animal kingdom met the artistic imagination, the result was a whole zoo full of fantastical creatures from dragons to unicorns, phoenixes to sphinxes. These strange mythological beasts haven ...

From December 30, 2025, through January 4, 2026, the public is invited to preview the upcoming major art exhibit: Mythical ...

Joshua Rapp Learn is an award-winning D.C.-based science journalist who frequently writes for Discover Magazine, covering topics about archaeology, wildlife, paleontology, space and other topics. View ...

. An artist active in Switzerland fashioned this tapestry fragment, woven between 1420 and 1430. The tapestry features a furry beast with sharp teeth, talons, and scales.Credit: The Metropolitan ...

The earliest ever depiction of a hunting scene has been discovered in a cave in Indonesia. The rock art, which shows human-like figures hunting buffalo and pigs, has been dated to around 44,000 years ...

A manifestation of Vishnu, Navagunjara is a composite of nine (nava) animals: rooster, elephant, deer, tiger, human, peacock, bull, lion and serpent. (Image via the Metropolitan Museum of ...