In many ancient cultures, animals were viewed as messengers of the divine or direct manifestations of deities. Temples, being the most sacred centers of worship, naturally became spaces where animals ...

Tyrannoroter heberti fossil shows one of the earliest land animals to eat plants, changing what we know about how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeological sheep bones unveiled at a Bronze Age site in the Eurasian steppe. Ancient animal bones are the key to understanding ...

This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it may be the earliest vertebrate herbivore ever found.

Animal mummification in ancient Egypt was a carefully organized practice that connected spiritual beliefs with economic activity. This wasn’t a rare or occasional ritual but a large, sustained ...

Ever since scientists began to understand evolution, they've been arguing over the contentious question of what, exactly, the first animal looked like. Based on genetic analysis, some say today's ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Horsepower profoundly shaped human societies - altering the way people moved around, traded goods, communicated, farmed and fought. And while the history of the combustion engines that eventually ...

A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in jellyfish and sea anemones, among the earliest creatures ...

Sheep may have played a major role in a prehistoric plague outbreak. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 11, 2025 11:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...