Amber, the gift that keeps on giving insights into ancient life forms, has handed us yet another rare preserved specimen -- fossilized red blood cells from an ancient monkey.

Researchers have shockingly discovered proof that ancient Egyptians were drinking a hallucinogenic concoction with human blood. This startling discovery, hidden in a 2,200-year-old vase featuring ...

The Saurophthyrus exquisitus flea dined on the blood of pterosaurs, or flying reptiles, about 125 million years ago. Chungkun Shih ...

The ancient, volatile Christian ideas behind Trump’s obsession with blood The Getty Museum explores the persistence of blood as metaphor from medieval times to the present ...

Sculptors from the extraordinarily wealthy ancient Mali Empire—once the source of nearly half the world's gold—at times coated their works of art with blood, scientists confirmed for the first ...

Sculptors from the extraordinarily wealthy ancient Mali Empire at times coated their works of art with blood, scientists confirmed for the first time.

Lunar malevolence For many ancient civilizations, the "blood moon" came with evil intent. The ancient Inca people interpreted the deep red colouring as a jaguar attacking and eating the moon.

Scientists have long suspected that ticks feasted on the blood of dinosaurs, and now they've uncovered the first direct evidence. Preserved in a 99 million-year-old chunk of amber lies a hard tick ...

Several women who return their period blood to Earth say it's changed their thinking around their periods and helped them connect to their bodies.

A look at 21 ancient Egyptian mummified children reveals that one-third of them had a blood disorder known as anemia.

Science — Ancient, frozen ecosystem produces blood-red ice flows A microbial ecosystem has been trapped under an Antarctic glacier for over a … John Timmer - 4/16/2009, 11:15 AM Benjamin ...

Poinar gave the ancient parasite a name: Paleohaimatus calabresi. “Paleohaimatus” for “old blood” and “calabresi” for Vincent Calabrese.