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

An international research team has gained new insights into the burial rituals of Late Ice Age societies in Central Europe. Signs of human remains from the Maszycka Cave in southern Poland being ...

Around 50,000 years ago, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna. Mammoths roamed the tundra, while towering ...

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

For fossils, wild bison, stunning hiking trails, and tons of history, make a stop at this state park in Kentucky, where you ...

Imagine creatures that have survived since the time of dinosaurs. Species like the tuatara, sturgeon, crocodile, hagfish, ...

CELINA - Though dinosaurs are the most notable of the prehistoric animals, smaller mammals and fish walked and swam in Ohio, ...

DNA and radiocarbon dating analyses of the bones are offering new insights into the ambitious Ice Age site constructed by ...

With their pristine fur and dark almond eyes, arctic foxes are possibly one of the most beautiful mammals to have lived in ...

The fact that the last Ice Age resulted in rising sea levels was a lucky break ... two — wolf-like Protocyon have been successfully secured thus far. All recovered fossils have since been dated to the ...

with many large mammals going extinct and others experiencing reductions in body size. New research, published in Quaternary Science Reviews, has considered mammal fossils of gazelle, hare and fox ...

The analog is that humanity's fire practices have become so vast, especially in recent centuries, that we are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age. Humanity and fire ... with the wholesale ...