A pair of 14,000-year-old "puppies" found melting out of the permafrost in Siberia have undergone genetic testing, proving ...

Mummified remains of two 14,000-year-old puppies, with their fur and stomach contents intact, may be wolf cubs, according to ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to survive the cold during the ice age. A team of paleontologists and ...

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Now, examinations of fire-baked tools from the site suggest that these ancient people lived more than ... tools about 315,000 years ago, give or take 34,000 years. This age is twice as old as ...

Although there is evidence of Neanderthals gathering and eating molluscs in what is now southern Spain around 150,000 years ago, current findings suggest that ancient humans didn’t regularly use ...

The region is packed with rich fossil beds from the Early Pleistocene, spanning between 2.2 and 1.3 million years ago. It's a window into a time when early humans may have started exploring new ...

But heavy rainfalls have shifted the creek ... first appearing between 27 and 30 million years ago. They had trunks and tusks, and they traveled in small packs. The creatures often are confused ...

Paleontologists recently discovered a 506-million-year-old “moth-like” predator ... bundles of nerves in the eyes that would have been involved in image processing, just like in living ...

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erectus and the other animals found there lived ... have been particularly attractive to the early humans. "Here they had water, shellfish, fish, edible plants, seeds and fruit all year round ...