“There are so many amazing ‘firsts’ preserved in these duck-billed mummies — the earliest hooves documented in a land ...

In a new paper in Science, experts from the University of Chicago describe steps that took place some 66 million years ago to ...

A singular geological process—a clay mask of extreme fineness—has allowed the appearance in life of a 66-million-year-old ...

Previously, some of the oldest mummies on earth were known to be in South America and dated back to about 7,000 years ago Scientists revealed they have discovered the world’s oldest known mummies. A ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...

Researchers have determined the identity of a centuries-old mummy found in Austria, according to a study published in Frontiers in Medicine, and unearthed a previously unknown embalming method in the ...

LIMA, Peru -- A mummy estimated to be between 800 and 1,200 years old has been unearthed by archeologists in Peru, at a site near the country's capital city of Lima. Researchers from the National ...

Mummies are most often associated with Egypt, where the oldest ones are about 4,500 years old. But researchers say they have found mummies that are much older on the other side of the world. “We found ...

The bodies were arranged into crouched positions, then propped over or placed near a fire to slowly dehydrate. Australian National University New research suggests the world’s oldest mummies aren’t ...

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