Fossils from more than 600,000 years ago reveal how Southern Europe's animal community shifted between warm and cold climate fluctuations, according to a study published October 23, 2024 in the ...

The Pleistocene (or Ice Age) extinctions began between 15,000 to 10,000 years ago during the last years of the late Pleistocene epoch. Large numbers of animal species perished.

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo ...

Some 125,000 years ago, enormous elephant-like creatures roamed in what’s now northern Europe. Despite their size, the animals were routinely hunted for meat by Neanderthals, according to a ...

The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the ...

Scientifically known as Palaeoloxodon antiquus, the towering animals were the largest land mammals of the Pleistocene, standing more than 13 feet (4 meters) high.

We believe that archery first arrived in Europe about 54,000 ... late-early Pleistocene era. They ran computer simulations to model competition for carrion–the flesh of dead animals–between ...

The partial jawbone from a human ancestor nicknamed “Pink” is helping rewrite the history of hominin migration into Western Europe. Researchers believe that Pink represents the oldest archaic ...