Who were the true champions of the Pleistocene arena? This episode breaks down the top Ice Age predators and survivors, ...

The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to ...

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

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly ...

A tiny bone from Starosele Cave, Crimea, has yielded ancient DNA showing it belonged to a Neanderthal dubbed “Star 1”.

Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been tricky to analyze, though – until now.

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

Nature has become a rounding error on a planet dominated by humanity, and for some things we don’t even need our machines to do it.

Archaeologists uncover how early humans in Italy butchered elephants and forged survival from their bones 400,000 years ago.

Ancient teeth reveal that flexible feeders survived past climate shocks, while habitat specialists rapidly declined.

A new look at cuts on a giant kangaroo bone reveal First Peoples as fossil collectors, not hunters who helped drive species extinct, some scientists argue.