That view is now under intense scrutiny following new evidence from a 10,700-year-old mummy discovered in Spirit Cave, Nevada ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...

A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.

Now, groundbreaking research published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage has finally unraveled the chemical mystery behind this extraordinary preservation phenomenon. The teenage boy's remains, ...

New research in a North American “mummy zone” in eastern Wyoming reveals how giant duck-billed dinosaurs were preserved in ...

EGYPT -- Egyptian scientists have digitally unwrapped the mummified remains of the pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing tantalizing details about the life and death of the Egyptian king for the first time ...

Researchers think the dinosaur perished close to the sea, sank onto the seabed and was rapidly buried by minerals.

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an ...

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