Why did mammoths and other contemporary mammals disappear? Throughout its eventful existence, Earth has experienced five ...

Prehistoric humans hunt a woolly mammoth. More and more research shows that this species – and at least 46 other species of megaherbivores – were driven to extinction by humans. The debate has raged ...

One of the most intriguing and intricate mysteries in paleontology is the disappearance of North America's giant mammals, or megafauna, which included saber-toothed cats, mastodons, and mammoths, some ...

Anthropologists created a computational model to predict the likelihood of animal extinctions based on the complex interaction of hunting and environmental change. During the Late Pleistocene, ...

Scientists have unravelled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque landscape on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before palaeolithic humans ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...

During the Late Pleistocene, California — at least at its lower elevations — was teeming with vegetation. While much of North America was covered in Ice Age glaciers, here, mastodons lumbered across ...