Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of the first ...

The more than 100 ha wide reclamation area was meticulously searched on hands and knees [by Berghuis], collecting vertebrate ...

A new study combining Indigenous knowledge systems with Western genomics has uncovered how megafauna – namely ancient horses – were impacted during a period of substantial habitat ...

The Quaternary period in which we live is made up of two epochs; the Pleistocene, which began 1.8 million years ago and ended 11,000 years ago, and the Holocene epoch in which we find ourselves today.

Ground sloths rapidly went extinct around 15,000 years ago, coinciding with the rapid expansion of humans across the Americas beginning in the Late Pleistocene Epoch.

However, within this period of time (commonly referred to as the Pleistocene Epoch), there were several warmer periods (known as interglacials), during which the ice melted and retreated, only to ...

This back-and-forth migration pattern continued as recently as the last Glacial period, between 50,000 and 19,000 years ago. By combining cutting-edge ancient DNA and isotope analyses with traditional ...

Well-preserved remains of saber-toothed kitten found frozen in Russian tundra, researchers say The species went extinct about 12,000 years ago.

At the end of the Pleistocene epoch, around 12,000 to 11,000 years ago, many “megafauna” species went extinct. Scientists are still trying to understand why this extinction event occurred.

In the early 1980s, paleontologists studying the fossils of giant kangaroos and rhino-sized wombat-relatives from the Pleistocene epoch of Australia found something odd.