The ‘Impossible Creatures’ author explains what these magical beasts reveal about human imagination — and why they were once a feature of the nativity ...

Citizens of Louisiana only have to look up at their state flag to see an animal doing some pretty wild — and deeply symbolic — stuff out of a medieval bestiary. But the goal of A24’s “Death of a ...

The lion, king of the beasts, gives birth to dead pups. After three days, during which the young are licked into shape, the father breathes life into his offspring with a terrifying roar.

When Marco Polo headed off from Venice, Italy, for the sprawl of Asia in 1271, the inquisitive teenager was on the lookout for wondrous things. One that he found surprised him mightily. The unicorn he ...

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THE BOOK OF BEASTS (296 pp.)—Translated by T. H. White—Putnam ($5). How does one catch a unicorn? Simple. “A virgin girl is led to where he lurks, and there she is sent off by herself into the wood.