Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools—it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of ...

Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth's harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating hearths that ...

The British Museum has announced that it will loan "some of the rarest surviving examples" of Ice Age art to Bradford, the ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known woolly mammoth fossil in North America — a 216,000-year-old tooth unearthed along ...

For decades, scientists puzzled over two key climate mysteries. What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

Years before Caroline “KK” Harvey became an Olympic hockey player at age 19 and the world’s best defender at 20, she ...