The contents of an ancient wolf pup's stomach yields surprising clues into the genetic lineage of extinct species.

The art's creators were likely part of the population that would later cross the sea and become the ancestors of Indigenous Australians.

The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, happened around 15,200 years ago—nearly 500 years earlier than previous ...

I n August 1939, just a few weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War, a scattering of ivory mammoth fragments was ...

When Swedish scientists examined the stomach contents of 14,400-year-old Ice Age wolf remains they discovered DNA from a ...

A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna ...

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal.

More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out why it went extinct. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

As glaciers advanced and retreated across Ice Age Europe, small bands of hunter gatherers followed shifting lands, animals, and survival itself. This episode traces how climate, migration, and ...

Long before the Black Death killed millions across Europe in the Middle Ages, an earlier, more elusive version of the plague spread across much of Eurasia. For years, scientists were unsure how the ...