Dan DenDanto, a Mount Desert Island scientist and expert in the specialized field of cleaning, articulating and restoring whale skeletons for display, traveled to Cape Cod to collect the bones of a 40 ...

Puzzling skeletal remains found in Chile 15 years ago -- and rumored to be "alien" -- are, in fact, from a human fetus with rare bone anomalies, researchers say. The findings may or may not put to ...

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A mummified skeleton discovered 15 years ago that was long thought to be of alien origin has finally been identified. The skeleton, named Ata, was discovered in Chile's Atacama Desert in 2003.

If aliens have ever visited Earth there sure isn't a whole lot of obvious evidence that they were here. Does the US government have a crashed alien space ship in a bunker somewhere? It's entirely ...

Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that redraws the map of the ancient world. His DNA captures a moment when people from ...

Police in China are trying to solve the mystery of a skeleton recently found in a dangerous desert. The remains were discovered in October in Lop Nur, a remote area in Western China known as 'no man's ...

Griddle-hot deserts, time-forsaken ghost towns, prismatic canyons and endless ribbons of lonely highway: There’s nothing quite like a road trip across the Southwest to get the gasoline pumping in an ...

Ten days in the desert may sound more like a punishment than a luxury holiday, but a trip to Namibia will transform your preconceptions of the world’s arid places. Astonishingly beautiful, the dunes ...

If anywhere in our over-explored world can still be called a wilderness, it’s the Skeleton Coast in northwest Namibia. The gates that mark the end of the public road at its southern boundary don’t ...