Kinmen County residents took part in the annual Bee Worship Ritual yesterday, which involves trying to snatch eggs while ...

"I've seen a lot of strange insects, but this has to be one of the most peculiar-looking ones I've seen in a while," said one entomologist.

This date has been named National Laverbread Day in Wales in Kathleen's honour to celebrate the Welsh seaweed that inspired ...

The Conversation explores the origins of the long and interesting journey the Easter Bunny has taken from European prehistory ...

The Odyssey, the ancient Greek epic poem ascribed to the poet Homer, charts the return home of its eponymous hero, Odysseus.

Kingfishers have captured the fancy of people for centuries. In Greek mythology, the gods caused a man to drown, leaving his lover, a woman named Halcyon, to grieve and wish to join him. One of the ...

They’ve named the wasp Sirenobethylus charybdis—a reference to the famous female sea monster of ancient ... As is often the case in Greek mythology, there are varying origin stories for ...

In Greek mythology, Daedalus was commissioned by King Minos to build the labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur, a terrible beast ...

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in sailors to their doom and after Charybdis, a mythical sea monster that created ...

In 1594, a newly ordained young cardinal, Odoardo Farnese – the recent beneficiary of a tremendous fortune – commissioned the ...