Early humans used planted pikes, not spears, to kill mammoths in the Ice Age ... According to the study, once the sharpened ...

Participants in the University of Wyoming's Archaeological Field School work at the site of a mammoth kill ... A new study by UW researchers supports the hypothesis that hunting by humans led ...

When the last woolly mammoth kicked the bucket, the Great Pyramid of Giza had already been built in Egypt. According to a new study ... environment didn't kill them, what did?

But what doomed this last mammoth population on Wrangel Island? A new genomic analysis deepens the mystery. The study offers the ... time,” Dalén added. Human hunting also does not appear ...

Study Reveals Isolation, Endogamy and Pathogens in Early Medieval Spanish Community ... First Ever 3D Reconstruction of 52,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Chromosomes Thanks to Serendipitously Freeze ...

While past studies often attributed the extinction of large mammals to climate change, a new investigation points fingers at humans. Around 100,000 years ago, as mammoths roamed icy plains and ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests.

Human evolution expert Prof Chris Stringer has studied Neanderthals his entire career. Here, he tells us what scientists have uncovered about the lifestyle of these early humans ... found on their ...

A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th ...

It may come as a surprise that the subterranean world of Mammoth Cave is not immune to the impacts of air pollution. Airborne contaminants can find their way into the cave passages, affecting delicate ...

Sep. 23, 2024 — A study of nearly ... extract DNA from woolly mammoths and other ancient archaeological specimens can be used to potentially identify badly burned human remains, according ...