For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from ancient mammals in China, revealing how they adapted and diversified after the mass extinction ...

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A fossilized Homo naledi skull Hawks et al. via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Deep within South Africa’s Rising Star cave system is an open space called the Dinaledi Chamber. It’s accessible ...

All modern humans may descend from a small group of people who survived a catastrophic event just over 70,000 years ago. Human history stretches so far back in time, it's almost incomprehensible. Just ...

Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted ...

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

Ecologists have described the mammoth steppe as one of the most productive large-herbivore ecosystems in Earth's history.

Deep in the mountains of northern Norway, scientists have uncovered the remains of 46 Ice Age species, preserved for over 75,000 years in a hidden cave. This rare discovery, detailed in a new study ...

The secret is out: Man and gomphotheres once coexisted in Sonora. Tools and spear tips found with fossil bones at a remote Sonoran site suggest that Clovis-era hunters butchered two juvenile specimens ...

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The fossil vertebrate collection at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (UCM) was initially built by vertebrate paleontologists in the University of Colorado (CU) Department of ...