The unnerving statues, which date back 800 years, were unearthed in the ruins of the ancient city of Chan Chan.
The discovery has cemented Archaeopteryx as a transitional form between non-avian dinosaurs and birds.
Netherlands-based firm SpaceLife Origin is aiming to make off-world reproduction a reality within six years.
Researchers from Florida International University have identified the first new species of crocodile in 85 years.
The wreck of a wooden vessel dating back 2,400 years has been found at the bottom of the Black Sea.
The ambitious new mission will see two satellites placed in to orbit around the closest planet to the Sun.
A fossil belonging to one of the world's earliest known flesh-eating fish has been unearthed in Germany.
A record-breaking 80,000-year-old clonal colony of aspen trees in central Utah is in danger of being wiped out.
Four gargantuan planets have been observed orbiting a relatively young star approximately 500 light years away.
A rock used to prop open a door for more than 30 years has been identified as a rare type of meteorite.
The infamous Utah property has seen more than its fair share of strange occurrences over the last 50 years.
A mere two months after beginning operations, NASA's TESS spacecraft has found two new extrasolar worlds.
A new study has cast further light on a mystery fossil that scientists say is as 'strange as life on another planet'.
The final resting place of one of the world's most famous ships has reportedly been found after 240 years.
One stretch of the M6 motorway in England has gained something of a haunted reputation in recent years.
Traces of beer dating back more than 13,000 years have been found in a cave near the Israeli city of Haifa.
The photograph, which was posted on Reddit, shows a car with so much shine that it appears almost invisible.
The elephant bird, along with some of Madagascar's other megafauna, went extinct around 1,000 years ago.
Hundreds of mummified penguins dating back up to 750 years were found in Antarctica's Long Peninsula in 2016.
The discovery of ancient cheese sieves has pushed back the origins of cheese making in the Mediterranean.