Buried beneath the sun-scorched sands of Egypt’s Fayum Depression, a place where ancient forests once flourished, scientists ...

Although many researchers assume that birthday celebrations date back to the ancient Egyptians, the earliest textual evidence ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of a "fearsome" leopard-sized predator that would have ruled the lush forests of Egypt some 30 million years ago. A largely complete fossil skull of the ...

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With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals ...

Mankind has sought civilization since the earliest days of recorded history. However, some kingdoms were the first to start ...