Botanical illustrations offer mesmerizingly detailed and vividly colored glimpses of the natural world. Now, reports Hakim Bishara for Hyperallergic, more than 150,000 such artworks are freely ...

Some years back, a Great Blue Heron dropped out of the sky and into our family’s garden. The bird did not move and it looked tired. When we cautiously entered the garden, it did not try to step away, ...

WE cannot say much in favour of the first of these two works. The engravings are good, but the subjects chosen scarcely justify the care which has been taken in their execution. For these subjects are ...

THIS little volume of some 250 pages is full of interest: treating somewhat of lions and tigers, it has a pleasant portion of a chapter about cats, but the bulk of the volume is devoted to man's ...

LANSING, MICH. -- With spring’s arrival come bunnies, ducklings, fawns and other baby wildlife. But while these wee creatures might be a delight to encounter outdoors, the Michigan Department of ...

Some depictions from the Middle Ages already raise questions. However, when you look at animal drawings, you often find that ...