Large herds of Teleoceras major also wandered the region – one-horned rhinos resembling hippos, standing only about 3.5-feet tall at the shoulder ... of the long-extinct animals across landscapes.

In some black limestone tiles of the checkerboard hallways you can see spiral fossils of shelled cephalopods called ammonites ...

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): From 1501 to 1504, the artist Michelangelo worked to create a 17-foot-tall marble sculpture ... and is one of the most famous statues in the world. But the block of ...

Half the livestock breeds that existed in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century are already extinct ... Today, a statue of the horse stands beside the fort, a few miles from the Taj.

Charles—soon to be known as “Voodoo Charlie”—set about gathering a hodgepodge of artifacts of varying authenticity: horse jaw rattles, strings of garlic, statues of the Virgin Mary ...

Standing 17–20 inches tall and weighing 25–45 pounds, this muscular and agile dog is often mistaken for a smaller Doberman but is distinct in size and temperament. The breed nearly went extinct after ...

From 1501 to 1504, the artist Michelangelo worked to create a 17-foot-tall marble sculpture of the Biblical king known as David. Today it stands in Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia and is one of the ...

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): From 1501 to 1504, the artist Michelangelo worked to create a 17-feet-tall marble sculpture ... and is one of the most famous statues in the world. But the block of ...