The specimen dating back to the late middle Pleistocene doesn’t look like other skulls that have been found from this time period, and could possibly point to a previously unknown human species.

Now the wait begins to see where it fits in the area's historical timeline. Judging by the size ... that add to what is known of the peninsula's Pleistocene history. "One was the molar from ...

They estimate that there were only 1,280 breeding individuals alive during this transition between the early and middle Pleistocene. About 98.7 percent of the ancestral population was lost at the ...

High profile genetic, fossil and material culture discoveries present scientists working in the Late Pleistocene with an ever-more complex picture of interactions between early hominin populations.

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...

This new study, however, sequences the genomes of 68 Late Pleistocene horse specimens from both the American and Eurasian continents, includes expert co-authors representative of the territories ...

Over the last two decades, archaeological evidence from deserts, high-altitude settings, tropical rainforests, and maritime habitats seem to increasingly suggest that Late Pleistocene humans ...