Monkey business from 20-30 million years ago likely led to the preservation of what's said to be the oldest mammalian blood ever found. Ancient monkey blood, and the fossilized tick that preserved ...

A 125-million-year-old fossil flea has been unearthed in China. The ancient parasite, described Thursday in the journal Current Biology, had a mouth and body smaller than older fleas, but larger ...

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.

Scientists have long suspected that ticks feasted on the blood of dinosaurs. Preserved in a 99 million-year-old chunk of amber lies a hard tick grasping the feather of a dinosaur, suggesting that ...