A new study has analyzed mummified remains of cheetahs in Saudi Arabia caves. The results could help reintroduce cheetahs to the Arabian Peninsula, researchers say.

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

IT turns out humans were doing complex surgery on each other much sooner than anyone anticipated. Stunned scientists have discovered that a woman had life-saving surgery on her skull 2,500 years ...

Researchers extracted ancient DNA from naturally mummified cheetahs found inside a remote cave system in northern Saudi Arabia, and the genetic results point to a distinct population that vanished ...

Researchers exploring a cave network in northern Saudi Arabia have made an unexpected find: seven naturally mummified ...

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Learn how seven naturally preserved cheetahs discovered in northern Saudi Arabia reveal that the Arabian Peninsula once hosted multiple cheetah lineages, raising new possibilities for reintroducing ...

Decades before Darwin, there was a debate over transformism, the idea that species change over time. Two colleagues at the French natural history museum were on opposite sides of issue. They hoped to ...

Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History has given researchers the opportunity to learn more about the ancient individuals inside mummies, without needing to disturb their delicate wrapping. A mobile ...

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, a complete mummified wolf was pulled from the permafrost in Siberia, after being locked away for more than 44,000 years. Scientists have now completed a necropsy (an ...

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