Long before modern civilization, prehistoric America presented an environment that may have been hostile to early human ...

Russell Cave in northeastern Alabama preserves an 8,700-year record of human habitation, underscoring its value as a rare archaeological archive in North America. Archaeological layers detail the ...

More than 66 million years ago, Mexico was home to numerous species of dinosaurs, some of them as terrifying as T. rex.

Environmentalists are suing the federal government over what they say is a failure to protect the horseshoe crab, a ...

Known as "Big Lick," this site featured mineral-rich natural spring water that attracted animals, making it a hunting ground ...

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

Underneath the Antarctic ice, researchers found a massive, preserved landscape of river valleys and hills that has been ...

Pileated woodpeckers can grow up to 17 inches long, thriving in large and decaying trees in old-growth forests across North ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

Sixteen 5,200-year-old canoes have been discovered under Lake Mendota in the U.S., making most of them older than the Egyptian pyramids.

Handprints on the walls of Indonesian caves may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back at least 67,800 years.