In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Two duck-billed dinosaur carcasses were preserved in a thin layer of clay for 66 million years. Now, they’ve helped ...

Many of them, including a duck-billed dinosaur mummy discovered in 1908, hail from an area in eastern Wyoming, US. In the new ...

Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected way ...

The ‘witch hat’-wearing mummies have long caused debate among historians. Could they suggest Europeans reached Asia earlier than we thought?

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...

Skulls displayed in public 2,000 years ago were intended as a warning to enemies and a celebration of comrades, a new paper ...

Scientists have discovered a coral mechanism that could help engineers design robots able to adjust their strength and ...

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

Edmontosaurus, which munched plants with its broad and flat snout that vaguely resembled a duckbill, roamed western North ...