Perhaps among the most iconic birds in the world, the scarlet macaw is a parrot like no other. Hailing from the Neotropical ...

Who really carved the Great Sphinx of Egypt and constructed Mexico's Pyramid of the Sun? For centuries man has been baffled by the great monuments left behind by the ancients. How could various ...

These large Old World monkeys (Mandrillus sphinx) are related to baboons ... Many tropical birds are colorful, but scarlet ...

I'm walking through the galleries of the British Museum heading for a stone sphinx. Sphinxes - statues with a lion's body and a man's head - are creatures of myth and legend, but they're also one ...

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Hyacinth macaws, blue and vast, a metre long from tail to beak; the jaguar, stocky and muscular, whose ancestors ...

The most enigmatic of sculptures, the Sphinx was carved from a single block of limestone left over in the quarry used to build the Pyramids. Scholars believe it was sculpted about 4,600 years ago ...

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Some archeologists have noticed that the human head of the Great Sphinx of Giza is too small for it's lion body. One theory is that the sphinx was originally not a sphinx at all. (03:40 ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a sphinx-like statue and the remains of a shrine in an ancient temple in southern Egypt, the antiquities ministry says. The artefacts were found near the Hathor ...