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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A unique exhibit on display at the Walters Art Museum combines the love of animals with ancient history. The "Soulful Creatures: ...

Thousands of animals — from crocodiles to cobras, down to scarab beetles — were once mummified in ancient Egypt. New analysis of the dyes on the textiles that tightly bound these mummies is now ...

Researchers thought that just one subspecies of cheetah lived in Saudi Arabia long ago. But an unexpected discovery seems to ...

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 ...

Scientists have used 3D imaging to examine the contents of three mummified animals -- a cat, a snake and a bird of prey -- to provide unprecedented insight into how they died, all without damaging the ...

In the central Sahara, where sand now buries ancient lakes, scientists have pulled genetic material from 7,000-year-old ...

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 ...

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 ...