Preserved by dry, cool air and darkness, the cheetah mummies are offering scientists DNA insights into a lost population and ...

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

San Benedicto in Mexico was born from volcanic eruptions, leaving sharp lava ridges and an immense crater. Welcome to ...

From royal tombs to submerged ports, via the genetic secrets of ancient civilisations, archaeology delivered a series of ...

Ancient galaxies colloquially known as "little red dots" have proven a mystery ever since astronomers discovered them three ...

The stomach of an Ice Age puppy is shedding new light onto the woolly rhinoceros and what—or what didn't—cause these horned ...

The previously unknown settlement appears to have been abandoned at some point in the 1300s, but researchers don't know why ...

A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

The specimen was found at Mazon Creek fossil beds, a site known for its beautifully preserved animals and plants.

A n ancient species of snake has been found in England, and it is – and this is a scientific term – “bizarre”. We’re not ...

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

Deep inside a fossil-filled cave in the Dominican Republic, researchers uncovered evidence of an unexpected interaction ...