"People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies. This would have more potency as a blood sacrifice, ...

Archaeologists excavating at Saqqara Necropolis found a 4,300-year-old tomb of a poorly known prince with a unique fake door, ...

A tiny fossil preserved in 16 million-year-old amber revealed an extinct Caribbean species that mastered the art of ...

The butchered remains of great bustards found in the graves of people buried 15,000 years ago show that these birds had a ...

While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

New Fossil Discovery Reveals How Volcanic Deposits Can Preserve the Microscopic Details of Animal Tissues Mar. 18, 2025 — An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has ...

Not a single dire wolf has been seen on Earth in over 10,000 years, when the species went extinct. But a Dallas-based biotech ...

Stunning pictures show a female baby mammoth, dating back over 130,000 years, recently being dissected by Russian scientists.

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Egyptian school, offering a rare glimpse into how the children of Egypt’s elite ...

The researchers estimate that the animal reached about 20 meters in length. The researchers were careful not to declare the ancient whale had broken the record. But there was also “no reason to ...

I remember how, as a kid, circuses and shows featuring animals were a regular part of life. This tradition has been around for 257 years. Today, however, it's less common to see sp ...

Archaeologists have discovered ancient tombs and Egypt’s first known temple school, the "House of Life," at Luxor’s Ramseum ...