Scientists discover hundreds of thousands of animal, and human bones in Saudi Arabia cave Although hyenas look and hunt like canines, they’re members of the mongoose family and therefore more closely related to a cat. However, just like dogs, hyenas have an affinity for hiding bones — it’s just that they can tend to go …

Well-Preserved Cave Lion Cub Found to be a 28,000-Year-Old Female A nearly 28,000-year-old cave lion cub discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost is so well preserved, you can still make out each and every one of her whiskers. Researchers in Sweden claim the cub, nicknamed Sparta, is probably the best-preserved Ice Age animal ever uncovered …

Tajik Buddha in Nirvana – the Largest in the World: 42 feet long and 9 feet high In the past, while Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan destroyed two immense statues of Buddha, art historians in neighboring Tajikistan meticulously restored a huge reclining Buddha from the same period. The world’s largest “Buddha in Nirvana.” Tajikistan carefully preserves the …

Wounds on Colonial-Era Skull Examined in Indonesia A possibly enslaved woman may have been executed with a sharp weapon in what is now the Papua province of Indonesia, a new study finds. Only the skull of the victim is available for analysis, but it revealed that the woman was between 26 and 42 years old …