Pygmy mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and some of the earliest Americans may have been killed off by climate change sparked by a cosmic bombardment 12,900 years ago, a new study suggests.
Many of the 33 mummies uncovered near Chiclayo, Peru, were those of girls—a rarity, experts say. Their throats slit, the girls were probably killed in a bid for agricultural fertility. Video.
A richly decorated canine skeleton and unbroken plaster seals add to clues that a site at the heart of Mexico City could be the only known—and unlooted—tomb of an Aztec king.
Although they start out looking like chickens and mice, baby turtles go through a unique folding process inside their eggs that forms their upper shells, a new study shows.
In addition to body armor never before found on a crocodile species, the ancient reptile had jaws that allowed it to chew like a mammal, paleontologists say.
Fossils of a ferocious predator and two giant plant-eaters, named for an Aussie poet and his creations, have been unearthed in the outback, paleontologists say.
A stunningly preserved dinosaur has skin like that of modern birds and crocodiles, a paleontologist says. "This is the closest you're going to get to patting the animal."
The one-acre human-made cave in the Jordan Valley, thought to have begun as a quarry, may later have been converted for other uses, including a monastery or a hideout for persecuted Christians.
Three times longer than today's piranha--and with more teeth to boot--eight-million-year-old Megapiranha solves an evolutionary mystery, a new study says.
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