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 ...

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Seven cheetah mummies recently discovered in an Arabian desert cave have renewed discussion about reintroduction of the ...

Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.

Remarkable discovery of naturally mummified cheetahs in a Saudi Arabian cave reveals they used these sites as long-term ...

SHOCKINGLY well-preserved mummified cheetahs have been uncovered in caves in Saudi Arabia. They were found alongside the ...

Mummified remains of cheetahs were found in a cave in Saudi Arabia, expanding the animal's geographic range further than ...

Cheetahs vanished from Saudi Arabia half a century ago. Now long-dead mummified big cats may help herald their return.

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 ...

Arabian cheetah mummies' DNA reveals that the long-lost population could be closely replaced by a cheetah population in ...

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 ...