The handprints dotting the walls of an Indonesian cave had tapered fingertips, and the team found the prints were nearly ...

The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

Ice age people painted these animals 12,600 years ago.

An expedition off the coast of Massachusetts has confirmed the existence of a freshwater reservoir beneath the seafloor. Now, ...

A mastodon bone will be on display at the Museum of Fulton County, nearly half a century after its original discovery.

When you drive through Columbia County, Wisconsin, surrounded by farmland, pastures, and patches of forest, everything feels ...

Just a few years ago, explorers mapping the bottom of the Bay of Mecklenburg off northern Germany stumbled on something ...

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal.

DNA recovered from a wolf frozen in permafrost has helped researchers solve a 14,400 year-old woolly rhino extinction mystery ...

When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often ...

Thanks to its largest-ever donation, the La Brea Tar Pits will now house the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research ...

The findings, published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, show that woolly rhinos remained "genetically healthy" until the end of the last Ice Age. Scientists say the species therefore ...