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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forget the Olympics and tuition fee demos. If reports are to be believed, the National Gallery's Leonardo exhibition is going to generate the sort of collective mania that will take riot police and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...