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 change.

However, within this period of time (commonly referred to as the Pleistocene Epoch), ... Our region resembles parkland habitats found in central Africa and, at least superficially, some areas ...

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.

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 ...