Gold miners are finding fossils and mummified animals from the Ice Age. Now paleontologists have an ancient wolf pup, a baby ...

Like Salt Man 1, all of the remains were remarkably well-preserved by the salt that surrounded them. The lack of oxygen deep ...

His latest paper also makes it clear that woolly rhinoceroses belong on this list. Boeskorov is a senior researcher at the ...

Scientists have unraveled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque ...

Human and animal remains and footprints dating back 26,000 years have been discovered during a £844 million construction ...

In the past 500 million years on Earth, there have been five mass extinctions. Here are a few incredible species that managed ...

Archaeologists found a pit full of giant dismembered hands near an ancient Egyptian king's palace, hinting that warriors may have offered the king the hands of their defeated enemies as trophies.

About 4,600 years ago, ancient Egyptian laborers built the Great Pyramid of Giza one stone at a time. Nearby was the Khufu ...

The haul of fossils derived from that paleontological expedition, estimated to be about 72 million years old from the late Cretaceous period, produced Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra, a new species of ...

Well known to specialists, but less familiar to the general public, Vienna’s ancient Egyptian Papyrus Museum should be part of every visit to the Austrian capital, writes David Tresilian ...

"With its abundance of cultural treasures and ancient antiquities ... like the megatombs of animal and human mummies, are ...