While the region offered a great diversity of fauna, Middle Paleolithic humans favored hunting the ancestor of cows, ...

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Polar bears are one of the largest surviving prehistoric animals. Their existence is deeply connected to the health of polar ecosystems.

Recent DNA analysis has uncovered that a Bronze Age sheep from Arkaim, a settlement in the southern Urals (situated in modern Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, near ...

A 70-million-year-old titanosaur skeleton was discovered in France by amateur paleontologist Damien Boschetto. The nearly ...

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to their remarkable ability to populate much of the Earth ...

Kaedan O’Brien, a professor of anthropology at SUNY Oneonta, received the 2025 Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology Prize from University of Tübingen in Germany for his study of prehistoric animal ...

A new book highlights the beautiful work of Jay Matternes, an accomplished artist who drew everything from mammoths to early ...

It’s hard to imagine that some creatures on Earth have survived for millions of years. While many species have come and gone, ...

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is ...