Some explorers believed they had found unicorns depicted on rocks. The truth behind the paintings is far more interesting.
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Mermaids are not real, but are meaningful to people around the world.
The long tusk of the male narwhal earned these whales their fanciful nickname. But there’s more to these Arctic mammals than their unique spiral tooth.
Unicorns are a staple of social media. Today we might think of them as all magic and rainbows, but their past is one of ferocious beasts, religion, and mistranslation.
The loss of the Siberian unicorn shows just how vulnerable some animals can be to environmental change that can impact on their food supply.
Canada is simply a consumer of ride-hailing services, and has not established any of its own Ubers or Lyfts, even as tiny countries like Estonia get in on the game. That needs to change.
It hasn’t been a good round of earnings for Silicon Valley’s big names.
Fantasy often meets reality when we try to find explanations for mythological creatures.
Two new monster movies are to be released this week in the lead-up to Christmas, and each sports a very different kind of beast.
Google’s image recognition project has not only generated some disturbing images but also tells us something about how we humans identify objects we see.
This is not an article about unicorns or virgins, but about the power of imagination, both wonderful and terrible. As an academic and equine artist I work between creative imagination and scientific epistemology…
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