Miners are digging up more than just gold in the Yukon, Canada's frigid northwestern territory bordering Alaska. They keep discovering ancient bones and mummified animals, including a perfectly frozen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Decades before Darwin, there was a debate over transformism, the idea that species change over time. Two colleagues at the French ...

A unique exhibit on display at the Walters Art Museum combines the love of animals with ancient history. The "Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt" exhibit delves into why ancient ...

Two well-preserved 14,000-year-old “puppies” might not have been puppies at all. New research has shown that, after undergoing genetic testing, the ice age “puppies” found melting out of the ...

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 glass ...

DONALDSON TAKES A LOOK INSIDE. THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF ARTIFACT FOUND IN EXCAVATIONS IN ANCIENT EGYPT IS ACTUALLY MUMMIFIED ANIMALS. THERE WERE 7 MILLION DOGS THAT WERE MUMMIFIED, FOUND SO FAR, 4 ...

SAQQARA, Egypt (AP) — Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities on Saturday revealed details on recently discovered animal mummies, saying they include two lion cubs as well as several crocodiles, birds and ...

Three-dimensional x-ray scans have revealed the last hours of a Nile crocodile that was mummified in ancient Egypt. The surprise discovery provides important evidence for how the Egyptians viewed and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gold miners in the Yukon are discovering mummified ancient animals from the Ice Age. Paleontologists often gather truckloads of ...

A unique exhibit will be on display at the Walters Art Museum that combines the love of animals with ancient history. Lisa Anderson-Zhu is the curator of the Walters Art Museum and has more on the new ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Throughout the early 1800s, the question of whether animals could turn into new species was hotly ...

Paleontologists often gather truckloads of fossils from the mines, but mummies are special and rare. Photos from inside the gold mines and the lab offer a glimpse at the ancient past. Miners are ...