Nearly all ancient cultures contain myths about flying gods. Mesopotamian gods were often depicted as having magnificent wings, but Greek gods flew without wings and...
Amazingly some songbirds purposely miss out certain pitches of tone which results in them vocalising musical scales know to humans. Some musicologists believe that birdsong...
Why does the dove represent peace? It probably stems from a series of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh in the 7th...
Tucana is a constellation of stars in the southern sky, named after the toucan, It is one of twelve constellations conceived in the late sixteenth century by Petrus Plancius from the observations...
Thrushes have acquired some peculiar superstitions across the ages. Apparently they ‘dispose’ of their legs every ten years… and then grow new ones!. They speak...
In the early sixteenth century the first Europeans to see birds of paradise believed they were magical creatures from heaven. Having travelled half way around...
Baku are Japanese supernatural beings that are said to devour nightmares. According to legend, they were created by the spare pieces that were left over...
The Japanese Lucky Cat is traditionally known as Maneki Neko which translated means the beckoning cat. According to ancient Japanese folklore it is good luck...
The fossil record of insects goes back an astounding 400 million years to the Devonian period, This period saw the growth of terrestrial forests. With these...
The fossil record of insects goes back an astounding 400 million years to the Devonian period, This period saw the growth of terrestrial forests. With these...
Amazingly some songbirds purposely miss out certain pitches of tone which results in them vocalising musical scales know to humans. Some musicologists believe that birdsong...
The fossil record of insects goes back an astounding 400 million years to the Devonian period, This period saw the growth of terrestrial forests. With these...
The fossil record of insects goes back an astounding 400 million years to the Devonian period, This period saw the growth of terrestrial forests. With these...
The fossil record of insects goes back an astounding 400 million years to the Devonian period, This period saw the growth of terrestrial forests. With these...
The fossil record of insects goes back an astounding 400 million years to the Devonian period, This period saw the growth of terrestrial forests. With these...
The fossil record of insects goes back an astounding 400 million years to the Devonian period, This period saw the growth of terrestrial forests. With these...
The fossil record of insects goes back an astounding 400 million years to the Devonian period, This period saw the growth of terrestrial forests. With these...