White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, over 15,000 years ago. The ...

If Yellowstone is dangerous now, it’s a cakewalk compared to the Pleistocene age where humans had to contend with mammoths, ...

A US-based biotech company has successfully sequenced the genetic codes of preserved plants, some of which date back more ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

Among a number of things I’ve read online that I think about all the time is David Roberts’ 2020 piece for Vox about ...

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

Human use of fire could partly explain why white-tailed deer may have been resilient to hunting. Indigenous peoples across North America have long used controlled burning to promo ...

During the years after the Civil War, America embraced an economic philosophy called laissez-faire, celebrating the notion ...

The discovery of a 43,000-year-old fingerprint in Spain is challenging the idea that Neanderthals were not capable of ...

A deadly practice row by a women's crew team on the North Branch on May 14 through Canada geese left dead goslings in its ...

"Dire wolves" created by Colossal Biosciences were pegged as "the first animals in history to be brought back from extinction ...