St. Andrew’s Day 2021: Why is the unicorn Scotland’s national animal? Why is it pictured in chains?

Today, the mythical beast may be associated with fairytale stories and children’s sparkly toys, but evidence of the unicorn’s connection to Scotland dates back as far as the 1300s. Also, we’re not alone in revering the mythical animal kingdom – Wales celebrates the dragon, the Czech Republic praises a two-tailed lion and over in Bhutan

A trip down the garden path leads a historian to…cryptozoology?

Holly Gruntner says she was “kind of trolling” in the archives of the American Antiquarian Society when she ran across something that she couldn’t resist. “It was that mystical period, at the end of a time in the archives,” she said. “You’ve seen everything that you knew you needed to look at. And you get