The Alabai is an ancient dog breed that has been a part of human history for thousands of years, and its impact on empires and civilizations is a fascinating story. In this documentary, we explore the ...

A unique exhibit on display at the Walters Art Museum combines the love of animals with ancient history.

Life-sized animal carvings may have served as landmarks to help ancient travelers navigate between life-saving water sources ...

Archaeological sheep bones unveiled at a Bronze Age site in the Eurasian steppe. Ancient animal bones are the key to understanding the origins of zoonotic infectious diseases. Most illnesses that ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study reveals that part of the answer lies in the body itself. The research shows that an animal's size and ...

The donkeys, found buried under a Bronze Age house in ancient Gath, near Tell es-Safi, were determined to have originated from ancient Egypt. A team of archaeologists has made a groundbreaking ...

Millions of years ago in Nebraska, chunky, stumpy-legged rhinoceroses were party animals, crowding together in huge herds at watering holes and rivers. Chemical signatures in the fossilized teeth of ...

The Burgess Shale in British Columbia is renowned for its exceptional preservation of soft tissues in fossils, including limbs and guts. While trilobites are abundant in the fossil record thanks to ...

The rock art was used to mark the location of water sources in an illustration of how ancient people tackled some of Earth’s ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of Lausanne, published in Nature Communications, reveals that part of the answer lies ...