They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and that's certainly proving to be the case for one animal shelter in Canada. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals estimates 6.3 ...

Paleolithic people living more than 10,000 years ago had a better artistic eye than modern painters and sculptures — at least when it came to watching how horses and other four-legged animals move. A ...

Some animals at the Humane Society of Southern Arizona have a new ally in the effort to find their forever homes. A group of eighth-graders at Cross Middle School in the Amphitheater Public Schools ...

Alexis Kandra has been drawing animals for years, but she never drew them with a moral message. They served as symbols—for danger, peace, or mystery. Kandra, a contemporary artist, is now painting ...

When Gabriel Ugueto was growing up in Caracas, he was “obsessed” with a book: A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela. When he cracked open the book’s spine, hundreds of detailed illustrations of the ...

New radiometric dating identifies the oldest known figurative drawing—not a stenciled outline of a hand or an abstract design, but an actual attempt to depict a real object in an image. As far as we ...

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Prehistoric artists were better at portraying the walk of four-legged animals in their art than modern man, according to new research. Prehistoric artists were better at portraying the walk of ...