Fifty thousand years ago, North America was home to towering giants. Mammoths roamed the tundra, saber-toothed cats hunted in ...

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

Ice Age hearths reveal how early humans mastered fire for warmth, cooking, toolmaking, and survival in extreme environments.

Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any ...

Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth's harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating hearths that ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Scientists warn that the dire wolf could bring "unintended consequences." "We are modifying creatures in new ways. Should we ...

The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium in Highland Park is welcoming some new — well, actually really, really old — animals. More than ...

Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study spanning a million years of mammoth evolution.