Pleistocene

Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan fossil.

What they delivered is a gray wolf genome carrying a handful of genetic edits.

We shouldn't be celebrating "de-extinction." We should be focused on the species that are currently in danger.

Tools were once thought to have arisen out of Africa and Europe, then spread eastward. New findings challenge that assumption.

Learn more about Homo affinis erectus, Western Europe's oldest human ancestor.

Permafrost preserved a priceless time capsule yet again.

The discovery of a golden scaleless fish in China is helping scientists understand how animals evolved to live in caves.

Russian scientists successfully revived 24,000-year-old micro-organisms, bdelloid rotifers, from Siberian permafrost, showcasing the marvel of cryptobiosis.

This bottleneck event happened between 130,000 and 50,000 years ago, according to new research led by scientists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Universidad de Alcalá.

Hobby fossil hunters found over 500 fossils in the murky waters of the Steinhatchee River.

Twenty-fourth in the News Commons series. 5:40pm—I just heard on one of the TV channels that The Five, aka The Grapevine, is likely to be opened again soon. All the channels sound more optimistic a…

In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species. New research suggests climate change played a much smaller role than once thought, though not all agree.

Scientists have sequenced and analyzed the genomes of seven individuals who lived between 42,000 and 49,000 years ago in Ranis, Germany and Zlatý kůň, the Czech Republic.

Learn more about the giant short-faced bear, and how it would have fared against saber-tooth cats and other Ice Age predators.

Paleontologists have unearthed and examined a fossilized leg bone of a phorusrhacid bird that lived 12 million years ago in South America.

The new finds confirm the existence of a feature seen in cave art.

Paleontologists have found the fossilized bones from a new species of the parrot genus Agapornis at three localities of the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Cradle of Humankind in Gauteng Province, South Africa.

Historical and ethnographic sources depict use of portable braced shaft weapons, or pikes, in megafauna hunting and defense during Late Holocene millennia in North and South America, Africa, Eurasia and Southeast Asia.

Analysis of the teeth suggests the newly described walrus relative was a suction feeder and once roamed the North Sea.

A new discovery by a team of paleontologists, led by Dr. Mathieu Boisville (University of Tsukuba, Japan), has uncovered a new species of the extinct genus Ontocetus from the Lower Pleistocene deposits in the North Atlantic. This species, named Ontocetus posti, displays surprising similarities in feeding adaptations to the modern walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), highlighting an intriguing case of convergent evolution.…