The unearthing of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth in Siberia is not just a scientific curiosity—it’s a profound invitation to reconsider our understanding of extinction, preservation, and climate ...

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A well-preserved human skeleton that scientists recently excavated in Vietnam dates back about 12,000 years ago to the Ice Age and contains the oldest human mitochondrial DNA found in the region. It ...

Warning: This article contains graphic pictures. Reader discretion is advised. Stunning pictures show a female baby mammoth, dating back over 130,000 years, recently being dissected by Russian ...

New research suggests early humans hunted and ate mammoths, as well as elk and bison, to a lower degree. Leonello Calvetti / Science Photo Library via Getty Images When Earth was frozen over during ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...