The dire wolf disappeared during the Quaternary megafauna extinction ... extinct between 52,000 and 9,000 BCE, long after the Ice Age but before the rise of human civilization.

These sites were found by Professor Hardy and local archaeologist Martin Wildgoose. Their pair's discovery means that the ...

At some point in the late Ice Age, in the depths of a cave in southern France, a dog-like creature met a violent end. Its ...

This puts them at around between 11,000 and 11,500 years of age. The wider implications of ... Much of west Scotland was buried under ice, with groups of nomadic hunter-gatherers most likely ...

A group of archaeologists and scientists, led by Professor Karen Hardy from the University of Glasgow, has discovered ...

EVIDENCE of “one of the earliest human populations yet known in Scotland” has been found on the Isle of Skye . Stone tools found on the island off the west coast date back to around 9500-9000 years ...

A lake's sedimentation patterns can refine earthquake-timing estimates for scientists at Yellowstone National Park, writes ...

A new study published in Geoarchaeology reveals that Ice Age humans crafted hearths in the frozen steppe of Ukraine with such ...

Differences between the fireplaces suggest a clever and intentional use. Whether it was used for cooking, heating, lighting, ...

Around 2.6 million years ago, the planet descended into the Quaternary, a period of alternating glacial ... During cold ...