Around 470 million years ago, life in Earth’s oceans took an important evolutionary step when marine animals began moving ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now Nebraska. With a head that made up almost half of its body length and ...

A significant new study has provided a surprise reason for an existing enigma of ancient Egyptian religion, in terms of two completely different animals being chosen for representing the same god.

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of Lausanne, published in Nature Communications, reveals that part of the answer lies ...

Iñaki Intxaurbe, a researcher at the EHU-University of the Basque Country, analyzed the distribution of images in nine caves ...

Ancient DNA can be a powerful tool for helping us reconstruct the long-dead past. Most surviving genetic material comes from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeological sheep bones unveiled at a Bronze Age site in the Eurasian steppe. Ancient animal bones are the key to understanding ...

The majority of all life ever to have existed in Earth's history is extinct. Today, many organisms face extinction due to climate change and other factors that contribute to biodiversity loss.

A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in jellyfish and sea anemones, among the earliest creatures ...

Scientists often encounter things beyond human comprehension. When studying jellyfish and their remarkable healing abilities, a team of scientists dealt with this very concept. When a thriving adult ...

Animal mummification in ancient Egypt was a carefully organized practice that connected spiritual beliefs with economic activity. This wasn't a rare or occasional ritual but a large, sustained ...

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