A jawbone fragment from a Swiss cave, buried for more than 14,000 years, has shaken up one of the longest-running debates in ...

Neumark-Nord in northeastern Germany was a lake landscape in the last interglacial period. It is rich in archaeological finds ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a new study is rewriting that history. Utilizing ancient DNA and reliable ...

Now, large DNA studies have shed light on the historic origins of our closest pets, creating a fable-like explanation for ...

Koalas with the bodies of lions. Elephants the size of your dog. Gigantic, 8-foot-tall sloths. These aren’t creatures found in science fiction: They walked our planet a million years ago, during the ...

Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, survived in central Europe far longer than previously assumed. Analyses of bone finds demonstrate that hippos inhabited the Upper Rhine Graben sometime ...

Scientists have confirmed using full genome analysis that dogs were already living as human companions over 14,000 years ago.

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

A paleontologist from The University of Texas at Austin has discovered the fossilized remains of Ice Age animals that have ...