Although Langmannersdorf an der Perschling is among the youngest Palaeolithic sites compared to hotspots like Willendorf and ...

Could the Woolly Mammoth and Tasmanian Tiger roam the Earth again? We take a look at how scientists are using genetic ...

The extinction patterns observed at the end of the last ice age offer clues about which species are most vulnerable today.

We are researching the cause of megafaunal extinction in the last major extinction event. Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present ...

Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?

Extinction troubled us long before we had a ... Humans had been causing extinctions at least since the Ice Age. Polynesian expansion, particularly into New Zealand, was responsible for large ...

While the auks outlasted other ice age species, humans ultimately caused their extinction. Europeans slaughtered them in great numbers, first for their meat and then for the birds' fat and downy ...

“When we look at Ice Age 10, we can very clearly predict when Ice Age 9, 8, 7 and 6, and so on, all happened,” Nuber said. Researchers came up with this method by looking at “astronomical ...

How have humans caused extinction? Our explainers are engaging ... But the brown bear was a top predator in the UK following the last ice age. But now, there are no bears left here because ...

This general area of science has become known as de-extinction. However, elephants have long gestation (pregnancy) periods, exhibit complex social behaviour, and experimentation on them raises ...