A strange new species has made its way to Boston. Strandbeests — wind-powered kinetic sculptures that were created by the Dutch artist Theo Jansen -- strolled across Boston City Hall Plaza Friday ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A pair of skeletal sculptures that harness the power of the wind to walk strutted around Boston's City Hall on Friday at the start of the U.S. tour of Dutch artist Theo Jansen's ...

BOSTON - Don't be alarmed if you're walking through City Hall Plaza next month and you see a spindly creature quickly side-stepping across the red brick. They're wind-powered creations of Dutch artist ...

For the past 20 years, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been perfecting a new form of life—the “Strandbeest.” Like a modern-day Leonardo da Vinci, Jansen has applied both artistic and engineering skills ...

SALEM — Standing in the sun-drenched atrium of the Peabody Essex Museum, “Animaris Ordis,” a skeletal network of bone-yellow PVC pipe, zip ties, and elastic bands, didn’t look like it was going ...

We recently encountered some beasts in Salem that we'd never seen before. It's impossible not to smile when you see these beasts, maybe because they seem so alive — but they're not. "Somehow you see ...

Of course, all this may have diminished his deathless mystique. But as Theo Jansen has proved, there is no shame in actually executing your most harebrained ideas, nor in delivering TED talks about ...

Onlookers watch a display of "Animaris Ordis," one from the series of "Strandbeests" kinetic sculptures by Dutch artist Theo Jansen, at City Hall Plaza in Boston, Massachusetts August 28, 2015.

A pair of skeletal sculptures that harness the power of the wind to walk strutted around Boston's City Hall on Friday at the start of the US tour of Dutch artist Theo Jansen's "Strandbeests." ...