Had enough of moose hurtling down ski slopes or elk skidding on ice? Here’s a snowy wildlife encounter with a critter that you don’t see very often on social media. But it makes up for lost Likes by ...

The researchers are part of a project dubbed Odotheka, which is hoping to build a library of scents based on museum objects. To do so, it’s working in partnership with universities and institutions ...

Although Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa” is the artist’s most famous painting, it may not be his most intriguing, accomplished or beautiful. It may not even be his best portrait. A strong contender in that ...

Winter fashion is quite different from summer dress in the mountains. One of the more stylish coats seen on the slopes belongs to the ermine. The animal is a handsome, foot-long, slinky tube of ...

On Wednesday The Polish government unveiled plans to buy the famous Czartoryski family collection—which includes Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady With an Ermine (1489-90). Though owned by the aristocratic ...

Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), owned by the Princes Czartoryski Foundation, is considered by many to be the most precious artwork in Polish collections. The painting, purchased ...

A 15th century painting by Leonardo da Vinci depicting a woman holding an ermine is the subject of a new study by a scientist who claims that the Renaissance master created multiple versions of the ...

Europe's Old Master collections – and specifically Poland, one of the most looted repositories of art under both the Nazis and the Communists during the 20th-century – got a big boost this week from ...

I AM often asked whether the stoat, or ermine, is monogamous. I really don’t know. And I can’t see that it matters. My guess would be that a good deal depends upon the individual stoat, or ermine. A ...

Ermine moths, also known as Yponomeutidae, are a family of small-to-medium sized moths who typically range from 0.3–1.2 inches (8 to 31 mm) in wingspan. They are usually white, pale grey or drab in ...

A U.K. photographer was surprised when he discovered a hedge completely covered in caterpillar webs. Mick Hickman was walking along a road near Bawtry in the English region of South Yorkshire on June ...