About 66 million years ago, a herd of herbivorous dinosaurs succumbed to drought – tragically, just hours or days before heavy rains fell. We know this because they left some of the most incredibly ...

Two naturally mummified individuals buried roughly 7,000 years ago in a Libyan rock shelter have yielded ancient genomes that ...

In a new study, an international research team found that pre-Neolithic people in Southeast Asia were mummifying their died by smoke-drying them. This would make them the oldest human mummies made ...

Skeletons of duck-billed dinosaurs found more than 100 years ago are so well-preserved that they contain fleshy body parts of the extinct species embedded in thin layers of clay, scientists say.

In the badlands of eastern Wyoming, the Lance Formation is a trove of prehistoric fossils. And one area in particular — a region less than 10 kilometers (6 miles) across — has provided scientists with ...

When two hikers stumbled upon a frozen corpse high in the Alps, they had no idea they were looking at one of the oldest and best-preserved mummies ever found. Ötzi the Iceman had been lying in the ice ...

They're older than King Tut, Ötzi the Iceman, and even the ones found in the Atacama Desert. Across southeastern Asia, researchers have identified dozens of mummies that are between 4,000 and 11,00 ...

High in Spiti Valley, the village of Gue is home to a naturally preserved 500-year-old mummy of Buddhist monk Sangha Tenzin. Discovered after an earthquake and brought to public attention by road ...

Each mummy was scanned in its sarcophagus, which weighs about 200 pounds. Then 3D models of the two Egyptian priests were ...