A new study gives scientists a fresh look at what life was like in the Las Vegas valley more than 12,000 years ago. Before ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted ...

Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, survived in central Europe far longer than previously assumed. Analyses of ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such ...

New fossil research shows that humans have reshaped animal communities as extensively as the great extinctions of the Ice Age ...

Amid busy construction crews racing to build an airport in Mexico, scientists are unearthing more and more mammoth skeletons in what has quickly become one of the world's biggest concentrations of the ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study.

PITTSBURGH — A new temporary exhibit at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium takes visitors back in time to come face-to-face with incredible extinct animals. Ice Age: Frozen in Time runs from April 14 ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene A shaft of golden light from the cave’s mouth ...