SAQQARA, Egypt – Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities on Saturday revealed details on recently discovered animal mummies, saying they include two lion cubs as well as several crocodiles, birds and cats.

The first animals that were ancestors of whales are thought to have been deer-like mammals that could walk on land about 50 million years ago, and over time, they evolved into the ocean dwellers we're ...

STORY: Zoo officials said they provide cool showers for animals and freeze their fruits to protect them from the high temperature. Egypt’s Giza Zoo is one of the oldest in the region. The pursuit to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Decades before Darwin, there was a debate over transformism, the idea that species change over time. Two colleagues at the French ...

In 2019, during the excavation of a previously undisturbed tomb at Qubbat al-Hawā (Aswan, Egypt), an interesting discovery was made – the mummified remains of 10 crocodiles in varying states of ...

Cat Mummy (Third Intermediate Period to Late Period, 780–390 BCE) and ibis mummy from the ibis cemetery at Abydos (Early Roman Period, 30 BCE–early 1st century CE) in ‘Soulful Creatures: Animal ...

EGYPT - An excavation of hundreds of animal remains at a site along Egypt’s Red Sea coast has revealed the world’s oldest pet cemetery, according to a report. The nearly 2,000-year-old burial ground ...

Archaeologists found ancient mummification workshops and tombs in the Saqqara necropolis. The workshops were used to embalm humans and sacred animals to prepare them for the afterlife. The tombs of ...

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 ...