Giant beavers (members of the genus Castoroides) inhabited North America throughout the mid- to late Pleistocene. They went extinct along with dozens of...
A team of researchers from Princeton University and Universities of Miami and Chicago has found drops of ancient seawater in the sediment cores from the...
While exploring Namibia, the desert country in southern Africa, a team of geologists from West Virginia University stumbled upon a peculiar land formation...
A research team led by scientists at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has analyzed mitochondrial...
An international team of scientists has found evidence of an interaction between Ice Age humans and now-extinct giant ground sloths.
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A team of Canadian scientists from the University of Victoria and the Hakai Institute has found fossilized human footprints of at least three different...
An analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA from fossils of extinct New World stilt-legged horses reveals that, contrary to previous findings, these enigmatic...
According to an international research team led by University College London Professor Chronis Tzedakis, a simple rule can accurately predict when Earth’s...
Humans first arrived in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to an analysis of ancient animal bones found in northern...
A study led by University of Adelaide researcher Julien Soubrier has revealed that prehistoric European cave artists recorded a previously unknown hybrid...
Researchers using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found evidence of an ice age recorded in the Red Planet’s polar caps.
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An international team of genetic researchers from the United States and Europe has found new evidence that there was an Ice Age refugium in southern Arabia.
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Analyses of genome-wide data from 51 Eurasians from 7,000 – 45,000 years ago reveal two big changes in prehistoric human populations that are closely...
DNA evidence lifted from the bones and teeth of hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe from 35,000 years ago (Late Pleistocene) to 7,000 years ago (early...
A group of researchers has found evidence of an abrupt, mid-latitude cooling of seawater during the Jurassic period, around 174 million years ago.
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Prof Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke from the Senckenberg Research Station for Quaternary Paleontology in Weimar, Germany, has recorded the maximum geographic distribution...
Short, rapid warming events, known as interstadials, coincided with major extinction events, according to a team of scientists from Australia and the United...
A team of scientists from the Swedish Museum of Natural History and elsewhere sequenced and analyzed the draft genome of a 35,000-year-old wolf from the...
A new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has confirmed a long-standing prediction that snowfall in Antarctica will increase significantly...
