During the Ice Age a massive hyena known as Pachycrocuta roamed across parts of Europe Asia and Africa Its unusually powerful ...

Ancient wolf bones are revealing how today’s wolves might survive in a warmer world. Higher temperatures in the past caused wolves to eat harder foods, suggesting major changes for wolf-dominated ...

“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

Los Angeles consistently ranks among the world’s most visited cities, drawing millions of international travelers every year.

Deep beneath Antarctica’s ice, scientists have uncovered a geological archive that could reshape predictions of future sea-level rise.

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

A prehistoric skeleton has been found in an intricate underwater cave system along Mexico's Caribbean coast, an area that flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a ...

Ian Jackson has launched "Reading Rocks", after writing five books about the rocks in the North East in Cumbria ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The La Brea Tar Pits are an Ice Age fossil site that is still actively excavated, with the iconic Lake Pit showing off the ...

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every smear starts to read like a diary.

An international research team has recovered the longest sediment core ever drilled from beneath an ice sheet. The core ...