A devastating ice age wiped out most marine life, yet new research reveals how this ancient disaster unexpectedly paved the ...

Remains found at the Nesher Ramla settlement in Israel reveal that archaic humans hunted wild cattle 120,000 years ago.

Ancient DNA has been pulled from a permafrost-preserved woolly mammoth found in Siberia, and scientists are thrilled. They ...

Possible factors in the extinction of many large animals include include hunting and climate stability since the last ice age ...

Almost 13,000 years ago, North America underwent drastic changes at a rapid rate. Mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, ...

A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

Tucked away in the frozen soil of Siberia, a lion cub has reemerged after tens of thousands of years, its head still resting ...

In a new Science Advances study, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have now proved that from this biological havoc, known as the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction ...

Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...

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 ...