The watermelon has long inspired artists, such as Giuseppe Recco's Still Life With Fruit (1634-1695). The first color sketches of the red-fleshed, sweet watermelon in Europe can be found in a ...

Underwater archaeologists found a Roman breakwater made from recycled architectural fragments off the coast of Bacoli in ...

A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

Occasionally, the mountainous coast across the bay came into sight, in the direction of the old Roman port of Misenum—where, in 79 A.D., the naval commander and prolific author Pliny the Elder ...

Despite its ancient origins, this tiling trend is just as applicable today. In fact, there is something strikingly modern about the collage-like look of this style. As mosaic artist, Helen Miles, ...

The natural history of Pliny (Volume 2) by Pliny, the Elder Publication date 1855 Topics Natural History Publisher London : Henry G. Bohn Collection usnationallibraryofmedicine; medicalheritagelibrary ...

The natural history of Pliny (Volume 3) by Pliny, the Elder; Bostock, John, 1773-1846, translator; Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1816-1878, translator Publication date 1855 Topics Natural History ...

Natural history museums teach us about our world, but they aren’t telling us the whole story, writes curator Jack Ashby in ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

Dippy – a complete cast of a diplodocus skeleton – is Britain’s most famous dinosaur. It has resided at the Natural History Museum in London since 1905 and is now on show in Coventry where it is ...

Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A ...