Paleoecologists have long wondered how the Pleistocene ecosystem was able to support such a variety of enormous herbivores. The answer, apparently, is that the herbivore population was kept in check ...

In an article titled "The expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia" published in the Nature Scientific ...

The horse originated in North America around four million years ago. As changing sea levels created land bridges between continents, the horse traveled into Eurasia. A team of 57 international ...

A team of scientists led by Liu Wu and Wu Xiujie from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported the first ever Middle ...

What makes our species unique compared to other hominins? High profile genetic, fossil and material culture discoveries present scientists working in the Late Pleistocene with an ever-more complex ...

Climate change, biodiversity, and ecosystem health : the past as a key to the future / Anthony D. Barnosky -- The Pleistocene fossils of Porcupine Cave, Colorado : spatial distribution and taphonomic ...

Temperatures in the Arctic continue to warm twice as fast as the rest of the world; that's according to the U.S. government's latest climate report. The past five years in the Arctic have been the ...

“The idea of trying to restore things to a pristine state is not possible,” says Melinda Zeder, senior research scientist and curator of old world archaeology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of ...