As the climate got colder 24,000 years ago, Stone Age Europeans turned from hunting mammoths to hunting caribou for their fur ...

Imagine a world where massive, shaggy giants wandered ancient forests, their claws tearing at trees and their bulk reshaping ...

Those comparisons, laid out in a paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews, point to a surprising conclusion: the Baume ...

Looking for blind cavefish in San Luis Potosí, biologist Luis Espinasa and his team accidentally found the remains of giant ...

The discovery of the Red Lady of El Mirón—a prehistoric woman buried 19,000 years ago in a Spanish cave—has revolutionized our understanding of Ice Age populations. Recent sedimentary ancient DNA ...

Grab some wood from the corner store, set it up in your backyard fire pit, and strike a match. But how did our Ice Age ancestors do it? There actually isn’t much in the archaeological record to help ...

From National Geographic: Explorer and citizen scientist Christian Stenner specializes in the exploration of glaciovolcanic caves–caves that form when volcanoes and glaciers interact. He has explored ...

The findings add to an emerging picture of systematic seafaring in the Stone Age. “There’s this new ... 64 stone tools and wild animal remains that bear signs of butchering.

Cats originated in Eurasia 30 million years ago, long before our ancestors appeared in Africa 25 million years later. Prehistoric cats were some of the most formidable predators to ever roam the ...

The team extracted genetic material from two dire wolf fossils: a 13,000-year-old tooth from Ohio and a 72,000-year-old skull from Idaho. (Photo: Colossal Bioscience) Defying extinction is now ...

De-extinction Of Direwolves: The news of de-extinction of direwolves has taken the internet by storm on Monday after it is reported that the ice age predator, which went extinct nearly 10,000 ...