Towards the end of the last ice age, an ancient wolf feasted on a young woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis). When the ...

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material ...

For decades, scientists have been counting annual growth rings—similar to tree rings—inside fossilized leg bones of ...

An analysis of growth rings in the leg bones of 17 Tyrannosaurus rex individuals reveals that the dinosaurs matured much more ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...

A DNA analysis of human remains found that two medieval men were buried in a peculiar position at a ritualistic site from the ...

For a long time, the end of the Ice Age felt like a slow fading rather than a sharp break. Mammoths vanished. Old ways of ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

Did mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers and other Ice Age megafauna face a similar, impact-induced fate to the dinosaurs? That’s ...

A 33-year-old woman was arrested after video surveillance captured a hit-and-run crash on Wednesday, Dec. 31, in far East El ...