with varying degrees of success. Like to Aristotle, the Greek philosopher and influential early zoologist, plants were sort of the baseline: they grew and produced new baby plants, but that’s it.

Even though aurochs are extinct, not all is hopeless. The old cattle breeds that still exist across Europe today have remnants of their DNA. Ancient Egyptian reliefs, Greek and Roman sculptures, and ...

Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...

Pherecydes of Syros, a pioneering philosopher and tutor of Pythagoras, blended myth and metaphysics, shaping early Greek thought.

The ancient city of Teos sits on the western coast of Türkiye, directly across the Aegean Sea from Athens. Today, it is ...

A Greek charity has been treating dozens of orphaned, sick and injured Mediterranean monk seals, rare marine mammals whose population had dwindled so dramatically that the species at one point faced ...

Speaking with Sarah Ann Macklin on the Live Well Be Well podcast, Buettner recently revealed that the idyllic Greek island Ikaria boasts more than just some of the world’s longest-living ...

The ancient tradition of the Bell People in the Greek village of Distomo marks the end of carnival. Revelers clad themselves ...

On its website, the Met said that the cauldrons set on tripods or conical stands were often used as votive gifts dedicated in Greek sanctuaries from the eighth to the sixth centuries B.C. The head ...

Judge Orders Halt on Deportations of Venezuelans Under Wartime Law A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from invoking an obscure wartime law, called the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to ...

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