The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human. By Noah Strycker. Riverhead; 288 pages; $27 and £16.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk PLATO suggested ...

Plato suggested that humans were "bipeds without feathers". People walk on two legs like most avian species. They are also largely diurnal and rely upon sight as their primary sense. All of this, ...

One of my favorite memories was when we first moved to Maine, over 30 years ago, and discovered vernal pools (our house was surrounded by them). Vernal pools are seasonal forested wetlands that fill ...

Most of us grew up reading fairy tales adapted from the European tradition: stories of kings, queens and princesses set in palaces and forests, such as Cinderella, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast.

Over four days last summer, actor Alexa Demie at different points wore elongated elf ears and scales along her spine; spent time dipped in black goo in a purple bedroom with posters taped to the wall; ...

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This weekend, NBC premiered its brand new fairy tale procedural Grimm. The show exposes the world to the dark underbelly of criminal fairy tale behavior, and it’s like Law & Order for exceptionally ...

Well, here we are. Absurd Creature of the Week made it one year without getting canceled. It seems like just yesterday when I awkwardly asked WIRED’s resident GIF expert to make one of a pearlfish ...

A throuple that identifies as Princess Fairy Lolly, Ion the Leprechaun and Gunther the troll say they're open to letting another mythical creature into their polyamorous relationship -- but it would ...

Pearl Abyss has added a new update to Black Desert Mobile as players will run into more magical creatures and get their own Fairy companions. The Fairy can now be added to your character as they will ...