The horse originated in North America around four million years ago. As changing sea levels created land bridges between ...

They first migrated into South America and later spread into Asia, Europe, and Africa. However, about 10,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene, most of North America’s large mammals ...

Most of the megafauna went extinct toward the end of the Pleistocene epoch. In North America, about 38 groups of mammals disappeared, and most of those were over about 99 pounds (45 kilograms ...

During the late Pleistocene, the study reports, horses repeatedly migrated between North America and Eurasia, but after the Last Glacial Maximum, warming caused a land bridge to be submerged ...

first entered North America during the last ice age, toward the end of the Pleistocene. Already part of the landscape in Europe, humans painted and carved portraits of these enormous lions in ...

Here's a look at 15 extinct animals from the last North American ice age, and what scientists know about their lives. Compared with today's coyotes, the Pleistocene coyote had a thicker ...

Friedkin, appear to predate the Clovis people, a paleo-Indian culture believed to have settled North America some 13,000 years ago, during the final stages of the Late Pleistocene era. A team from ...

until the cave was sealed off at the end of the Pleistocene period (around 12,000 years ago). In a second paper, I explore the wider pattern of human occupation across North America and Beringia ...