Cats pose a real threat to native animals in Australia, but finding a one-size-fits-all approach is proving tricky.

"People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies. This would have more potency as a blood sacrifice, ...

Archaeologists excavating at Saqqara Necropolis found a 4,300-year-old tomb of a poorly known prince with a unique fake door, ...

For decades, researchers have theorized that ancient cats in and around Cyprus —  located southeast of Greece, south of Turkey —most likely followed early farmers and then “gradually got accustomed to ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

BCMA IN BLOOM: Featuring objects ranging from a cauldron to a pair of earrings and focusing largely on depictions of the natural world in ancient Mediterranean societies, James Higginbotham’s new ...

A tiny fossil preserved in 16 million-year-old amber revealed an extinct Caribbean species that mastered the art of ...

The bones of butchered and cooked animals have been found in the most high-status graves. Some hold the skulls of wild sheep, ...

The life of a 166-million-year-old reptile has been turned upside down. While Marmoretta oxoniensis was believed to have swum ...

While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

A new Egyptian project aims at zoning animal handlers to give tourists a smoother experience, but the camel handlers are ...