The Bible doesn't have all the answers and doesn't need to be a part of school standards. It's up to us to seek wisdom and ...

Except that it’s not true. This myth likely comes in part from Pliny’s "Natural History," in which he writes that ostriches “imagine, when they have thrust their head and neck into a bush ...

Continents and oceans have scientific definitions that underpin international law. The idea of dividing the world into ...

In Etymologiae, he drew from well-known classical authors such as Aristotle, Cicero and Pliny, alongside Christian ... science and history, making sure people had a well-rounded understanding ...

Pompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of ...

Pliny the Elder’s lifework, the Natural History, was a colossal monument to his insatiable inquisitiveness: thirty-seven volumes, crammed with facts strip-mined from some two thousand works, covering ...

Early woodcut images of cannibals in Java showed them as cynocephali – the dog-headed men reported in Pliny’s Natural History. Patagonia got its name from the reputed giants whom Antonio Pigafetta ...

In a world where information flows freely, it’s easy to forget that, for centuries, knowledge was much harder to come by. Imagine living in a time when the internet didn’t exist, books were scarce, ...

Thousands of mounds and hills in Mars' barren northern plains are full of clay minerals, providing evidence that the rocks ...

The University’s Museum of Natural History is located on the southern end of campus, in a repurposed library space. Visitors ...