A groundbreaking discovery has revealed the complete genome of a man who lived in Ancient Egypt over 4,500 years ago, during ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

Explore 15 wild animals that are rarely seen and often live in remote or protected habitats. These extraordinary species, ...

The sanctification of animals in ancient Egypt has often been misunderstood, with ancient Greek visitors to Egypt being largely responsible, writes Hussein Bassir ...

No matter where you live, you have animal neighbors, and that's because many animals have had to learn to live very close to humans, like Opal here, Opal is a Virginia opossum, and they can be ...

Sacred animals The study examined the skeletons of 36 sacred baboons entombed at an animal necropolis at Gabbanat el-Qurud, near Luxor in southern Egypt. (Image credit: Bea De Cupere, CC-BY 4.0) ...

For the renovation, Egypt's ministry of agriculture is handing over responsibility for the 80 acres of zoo and gardens to a military-run company and a United Arab Emirates-based consultancy.

STORY: Zoo officials said they provide cool showers for animals and freeze their fruits to protect them from the high temperature.Egypt’s Giza Zoo is one of the oldest in the region.The pursuit ...

From a hardy frog to better-known bears and reindeer, meet the tenacious animals that inhabit the taiga (boreal forest), the largest biome on land.

Egypt mystery solved after animal mummies found in ‘sealed coffins’ Neutron scans of six such coffins revealed the presence of largely fragmented animal bones - including the intact skull of a ...