Have a holly jolly holiday and tune into exciting programming about the natural world at the museum this December Lyric Aquino Once feared extinct, black-footed ferrets have rebounded thanks partly to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aerial shot of Viking grave site (Credit: University Museum of Bergen) Archeologists recently uncovered a massive cache of jewelry ...

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...

Archaeologists exhumed the body of a Viking queen on Monday, hoping to solve a riddle about whether a woman buried with her 1,200 years ago was a servant killed to be a companion into the afterlife.

Researchers think the Viking Age boat burial of a woman and her pooch in Norway dates to between A.D. 900 and 950. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The saying goes that a dog is a man’s best friend, but an archaeological excavation in Norway proves that women care about their four-legged companions just as much as men do, even 1,100 years ago.

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 10th-century Viking woman in Norway who was buried in a boat grave along with her pet dog, shedding more light on special funerary rituals reserved for ...