Long before modern bears were around, Earth was home to massive bear species. Like today’s bears, these animals roamed forests and tundra. However, these ancient animals towered over today’s largest ...

Matthew Wooller couldn’t believe his ears after a California researcher rang his cellphone recently. The radiocarbon expert said a few of Wooller’s submitted fossils were from woolly mammoths that ...

The Ice Age ended, the mammoths vanished, and Homo sapiens remained. In the Mesolithic, humans reshaped their world with tools, fire, and mobility—but the archaeological trail is thin ...