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 ...

Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.

The paintings, found on the wall of a rock shelter under a short, sandstone overhang, portray animals and other elements ...

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 ...

They keep discovering ancient bones and mummified animals, including a perfectly ... miners and reindeer herders have discovered intact mummies of all kinds of big Ice Age animals — a wolf ...

Gold miners in the Yukon are discovering mummified ancient animals from the Ice Age. Paleontologists often gather truckloads of fossils from the mines, but mummies are special and rare. Photos from ...