Goetze: A time-worn statement regarding things being "here today and gone tomorrow” proves true in our everyday lives as well ...

When reindeer herders in Siberia spotted a small snout protruding from thawing ground, they were not expecting to uncover a ...

A 13,000‑year‑old tool from a cave in central Germany has turned out to be far more than a simple piece of Paleolithic gear.

International research and highly-specialized divers are bringing an underground, underwater world to the surface ...

If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an ...

From a woodsy farm near the village of Bevent in Marathon County, researchers have recovered the fossilized bones of a stag-moose, an animal that plodded about the prehistoric Wisconsin landscape more ...

If Yellowstone is dangerous now, it’s a cakewalk compared to the Pleistocene age where humans had to contend with mammoths, mastodons and saber-toothed-tigers. Scientists say people are "pansies" now ...

Introduction: The use of fire marks a critical milestone in human evolution, with its initial purposes debated among scholars. While cooking is often cited as the primary driver, this study proposes ...

Wild horses running free at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary in South Dakota. (Credit: Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary) Image must be used with caption and credit above. The horse originated in ...

Sometimes — but not very often — a door creaks open to a lost world. Sometimes the right person steps in. Dale Guthrie, an Alaska biologist and paleontologist who died in 2024 at the age of 88, was ...