When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great ...

Discovered over a century ago, the late Upper Paleolithic archeological site included stone and bone tools, evidence of ...

A group of fossil collectors have discovered a mass ice age fossil grave buried in Florida's Steinhatchee River.

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

As visitors trudged through a snow-covered hiking trail at Lake Metroparks’ Penitentiary Glen Reservation on a cold Presidents Day, they learned about large animals that lived in Ohio during a ...

A remarkable collection of fossils has been unearthed in Florida after a sinkhole swallowed a group of animals. 500,000 years ...

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

For the study, published in Scientific Reports, scientists analysed remains from Maszycka Cave near Krakow, studying 10 ...

During the Pleistocene Epoch, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna—large animals that dominated the continent’s landscapes. These creatures, some of which are now extinct, played ...

The Kostenki 11 site, located near the Don River, just 300 kilometers from Moscow, is one of the most significant Upper ...

More than 100 years ago, researchers discovered human bones there among stone and bone tools alongside the remains of hunted Ice Age animals. These discoveries were associated with a late Ice Age ...