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

What do you think of when you think about ancient Egyptian mummies? Perhaps your mind takes you back to a school trip to the museum, when you came face to face with a mummified person inside a ...

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

Three newfound thylacine relatives recently unearthed in Australia suggest that marsupial predators were more widespread in ...

DNA from a partial skeleton found in France indicates that European Neandertals consisted of at least two genetically distinct populations.

An ancient salt mine ... The second corpse was discovered in 2004, just 50 feet from where Saltman 1's remains were uncovered. In 2005, two more mummies - including the remains of a 16-year ...

The rare discovery will help scientists find out more about the prehistoric animal’s development, diet and living conditions ...

Archeologists have discovered another 2,000-year-old “elixir ... These two ingredients are cited in ancient Taoist texts as ingredients for immortality. Potassium nitrate is an inorganic salt ...

Ancient Sea Cow Attacked by a Crocodile and Sharks Sheds New Light on Prehistoric Food Chains Aug. 29, 2024 — A new study showing how a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by not one ...

Previously, only five wooly rhinoceros remains with soft tissue had been found in Yakutia ... to study the animal’s diet, the diet of its prey, and even ancient viruses. And these two specimens ...

Animal mummies provide a snapshot of the natural world, taken between approximately 750BC and AD250. Some of these mummified species are no longer found in Egypt. For example, ancient Egyptians ...