For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Creation legends and folk tales swirl like snow and leaves across the protected landscapes of Japan. This selection of four ...

What happens when the biodiversity witnessed by one generation fades into memory the next? These questions are crossroads at ...

Terrifying, sure, but that’s nothing compared ... humans on this list, as demonstrated in the heartfelt monologue about a ...

The species, named 'Denisovans' after a cave some of their remains ... much remains unknown about these early humans, as their fossil record is incredibly sparse compared to that of Neanderthals.

Bear tracks are not uncommon ... different measurements of the footprints and compare them with those of other caves in Europe, like the Romanian cave of Urşilor. "In addition, processing the ...

Paleontologists have discovered a set of ancient bear footprints in Honseca Cave ... different measurements of the footprints and compare them with those of other caves in Europe, like the Romanian ...

Early excavators discovered skulls with cut marks, which have long fueled theories of cannibalism in Maszycka Cave. But researchers had no surefire way to prove human consumption of these remains.

This discovery, made in the Maszycka Cave in Poland, provides new data on mortuary and ritual practices during this prehistoric period. Using advanced 3D microscopy techniques, the researchers were ...

confirmed that the bones came not from an ancient human, but a 20,000-year-old bear and reported their findings in the journal Anthropological Sciences. The team compared the Ushikawa Man fossils with ...

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