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Can animals make art?
Without being able to get into the heads of animals, it’s hard to say for sure. But instances of pig painters, whale crooners ...
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art. Credit...Lorenzo De Masi, via Torlonia Foundation ...
For Tolstoy, art is a means of conveying emotion. Others see it as a simple representation of the world. But in the animal kingdom, the lines blur, as Shawn Simpson, visiting lecturer in ...
As players collect bones during their travels, they can then build skeletons from them however they wish--with "millions of possibilities for unique species" according to the official NMS website ...
When the 24-year-old tried out equine-assisted learning in June 2024, which had him grooming and feeding the animals, he found a new way of connecting with and managing his emotions.
In 1805, Jacob Fidelis Ackermann, the first chairholder of anatomy at the University of Heidelberg, bought the two skeletons that he believed belonged to Schinderhannes and Schwarzer Jonas.
In 1805, the first chairholder of anatomy at the University of Heidelberg, Jacob Fidelis Ackermann, brought the two skeletons to his institute, where they were subsequently mixed up. An ...
Beachgoers at Margate Beach, Kent, found themselves puzzled when a skeleton-like figure washed ... Some suggested it could be a forgotten piece of art, flotsam, or even a marketing stunt.
[Photo: doug/Flickr] Of course, figuring out whether something is a work of art requires answering some tricky philosophical questions. Are animals even capable of creating art? And how can we ...
(NewsNation) — New skeletons hidden in Egyptian pyramids are raising questions about long-standing assumptions regarding the role of pyramids in ancient Egyptian culture. Skeletons discovered at ...
However, analysis of skeletons belonging to “extremely active” people might prove that they were dead wrong — and that poor physical laborers could’ve been interred there as well.