Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...

During a remarkably warm period 400,000 years ago, early humans living near what is now Rome regularly butchered massive straight-tusked elephants, using both their meat and bones as vital resources ...

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Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial ...

Incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo challenges the ‘humans wiped out ...

The ocean is home to some of the most awe-inspiring creatures on Earth, many of which dwarf anything found on land. From massive whales to elusive deep-sea dwellers, these giants of the sea ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

IN a stunning botanical breakthrough, scientists have discovered a colossal tree species in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains ...

New technology has shown the incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo were in fact made after the bone was ...

Dozens of doctors, staffers and survivors gathered at MemorialCare’s Long Beach Medical Center to kick off the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month by forming a giant human ribbon on Wednesday, ...

About 12,000 years ago, a human living in the Arabian desert carved “incredibly beautiful” rock art into a cave’s wall. While we do not know the prehistoric artist’s inten ...