During the Late Pleistocene, a significant number of megafauna species, broadly defined as animals exceeding 44 kg, ...

New research led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks archaeologist reveals that the earliest Native Americans had highly specialized diets, primarily hunting the largest animals on the landscape, and ...

Earth’s history has been shaped by five mass extinctions—catastrophic periods when life changed so dramatically that entire ...

Early humans in North and South America relied heavily on hunting of large mammals, including mammoths and giant ground sloths, for food and sustenance, according to newly published research by a team ...

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

Early humans in North and South America relied heavily on hunting of large mammals, including mammoths and giant ground sloths, for food and ...

Without avocado, there'd be no guacamole or avocado toast, and as it turns out, without sloths and their ancestors, there ...

On June 29, Gracie the Giraffe returned to her South Texas ranch after a 17-day walkabout and attendant media sensation. ...

An 8-mile stretch of rock art at Serrania La Lindosa depicts Ice Age megafauna including horses and three-toed hoofed mammals with trunks that vanished from South America thousands of years ago. These ...

Ice Age hunters spread rapidly across the Americas by specializing in mammoths and other giant animals, according to a new study.

The researcher from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam has been awarded a prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). This grant supports groundbreaking and high-risk ...