For most of the history of the Western world, and for much of the developing world today, food supplies have...
Chocolate is one of the most sensuous of foods with profound associations with both romance and the comforting of broken...
A beautiful horse and a competent rider are a delight to watch. They seem to function almost as one. The...
Humans, as do many animals and insects, have an innate capacity to find flowers beautiful. This seems to have evolved...
What and how much did our ancestors eat? Ancestral man was a hunter-gatherer. Remains from sites excavated by archaeologists indicate...
Alphonse Mucha was a Czechoslovakian artist who epitomized the Art Nouveau movement which flourished in Europe around the turn of...
It is hard to believe that birds are descended from dinosaurs especially the tiny hummingbird [Evolution]. However, more and more...
The ancient ancestor of all bears, the Dawn bear, first appears in the Miocene fossil record about 20 million years...
One of the primary ways in which the beauty of the world is experienced is visually. Colour is intrinsically important...
Butterflies are among the most beautiful and enchanting of insects. The metamorphosis of the rather dull, ugly, earthbound larva of...
The jaguar is a powerful and beautiful member of the cat family which ranges from northern Argentina to the southern...
Tree are the largest of all living plants and are the oldest of all known living things. Babies and small...
