The desiccated feline was found in the walls of Waltham Abbey Church, where Harold Godwinson is believed to have been buried after his death at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. In Britain, mummified ...

A mummified ice age cub from Siberia is the first known mummy of a saber-toothed cat, and its discovery is generating ripples of excitement among paleontologists. The mummy’s exceptional preservation ...

Researchers thought that just one subspecies of cheetah lived in Saudi Arabia long ago. But an unexpected discovery seems to ...

Thousands of animals — from crocodiles to cobras, down to scarab beetles — were once mummified in ancient Egypt. New analysis of the dyes on the textiles that tightly bound these mummies is now ...

In a study published on Thursday, scientists shared their findings on a frozen, mummified sabre-toothed cub discovered in one of the coldest places on the planet. A member of the species Homotherium ...

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