Nick Faldo has more majors and Seve Ballesteros was a majestic shotmaker but the career grand slam is priceless.

Rory McIlroy achieves golfing immortality as he beats Justin Rose in a sudden-death play-off to finally win his first Masters ...

A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.

Medieval book covers previously thought to be made from deer or boar skin are actually made of sealskin from northern regions ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some manuscripts, rather than skins from the local boars and deer ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

King Charles underlined the importance of strong ties between Italy and Britain at a time of war in Europe as he delivered a ...

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

A new study suggests gray seals (Halichoerus grypus) can sense the level of oxygen in their blood and that the animals change their diving behavior in response. Seals can do many things humans can ...

Chris Bale had originally been trying to capture a photo of a seal when the shag "popped up ... according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. It said they mainly breed in coastal ...

The confusingly named BYD Seal U DM-i is a plug-in hybrid, but one with a difference. As you’d expect from a tech company that’s made far more batteries than it has cars, this plug-in hybrid ...