Fossils discovered by kindergartners, construction workers and a jogger offer new information about the mastodons and grizzly ...

A mysterious skull, discovered in a Greek cave decades ago, has been identified as belonging to Homo heidelbergensis, an ...

A skeleton found in Vietnam contains a bone that was likely pierced by a projectile. It may be the earliest sign of ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

Scientists find a 44,000-year-old adult wolf in Siberia, preserved in permafrost, offering unprecedented clues about Ice Age ...

Elephants are plagued by the same deadly bacteria that infected mammoths, genetic experts have found. A study of mammoth ...

What do penguins, Arctic foxes, and mammoths have in common? They are all masters of adapting to extreme cold. But how ...

(AP) - An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an ...

Rare Ice Age elk remains unearthed from Siberia after a chance glimpse by local hunters Researchers have received a gift from ...

A long-lost prehistoric bird species makes a triumphant comeback in its native land after being considered extinct.