The most complete bear ever recovered from Siberia’s frozen ground looks less like a fossil and more like a sleeping animal caught mid-breath. Fur, skin, even internal organs have survived in the ...

Russian scientists discovered the full carcass of a now-extinct species of bear earlier this month, its snout locked in a snarl after millennia in the frozen ground. “It is completely preserved, with ...

Archaeologists have unearthed rare artefacts dating to the last ice age at a cave in Australia’s Blue Mountains, providing definitive proof that the rugged ranges were once occupied by the continent’s ...

A 31-year-old Pakistani man, who went missing in June 1997 in an ice cave, was found perfectly preserved by a local shepherd. The discovery puts an end to a painful three-decade-long search for a ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible through technological advances in the way DNA is extracted from ancient bones ...