The work is being framed as urgent, because modern land use and infrastructure are already cutting into the ancient fields and the geoglyph itself reports Heritage Daily. According to archaeologist ...

The "Nazca mummies" were discovered in Peru in 2015 and, due to certain peculiarities (size, shape, three fingers on each hand), were initially presented as possible extraterrestrial mummies. Various ...

Pavel Durov in 2017 ...

The fastest land animal on the planet lies frozen in time beneath blistering desert sands. Researchers have discovered dozens of ancient cheetah skeletons and dehydrated bodies preserved in caves on ...

What do aliens, Nazis and the lost city of Atlantis have in common? A great deal, unfortunately, but not because of any global conspiracy hiding humanity’s secret history, as many pseudoscientific ...

Thomas Pettigrew, a nineteenth-century surgeon and antiquarian, threw parties in London at which he unwrapped ancient Egyptian mummies for his guests’ titillation. Modern scanning technologies mean ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. NEW YORK — Researchers have unearthed a pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected ...

NEW YORK — Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected way. These dinosaur remains are different from the wrapped mummies of Egypt or ...

Two duck-billed dinosaur carcasses were preserved in a thin layer of clay for 66 million years. Now, they’ve helped researchers recreate their living appearance. Reading time 3 minutes In the badlands ...

More than a century ago prolific fossil collector Charles Sternberg discovered the skeleton of a duck-billed Edmontosaurus dinosaur in the sandstone rocks of the Lance Formation in eastern Wyoming.

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like. Paul Sereno and his colleagues spent years painstakingly preparing this ...