Remarkable life-size rock carvings, depicting camels, gazelles, and other animals, have been discovered in the Saudi Arabian desert, with researchers dating these ancient artworks back 12,000 years.

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

Long before the Black Death killed millions across Europe in the Middle Ages, an earlier, more elusive version of the plague spread across much of Eurasia. For years, scientists were unsure how the ...

A groundbreaking study published in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) in July 2025 has revealed the discovery of 75,000-year-old animal remains in Norway, preserved deep within ...

The National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum have been next-door neighbors in Washington, DC for nearly 90 years—but until now, they’ve never shared so much as a cup of ...

While nonhuman animals (animals) have played a large role in many aspects of human history, most traditional historical works either give them passing coverage or ignore them totally. 1 That is among ...