The floor of Bender’s Cave looked like a graveyard. Fossils spread across the submerged stream bed in every direction, packed tightly enough that paleontologist John Moretti could barely move without ...

A study published in Nature on March 25, 2026, has identified the oldest genetic evidence for domestic dogs in Europe and what is now Turkiye, pushing back the confirmed timeline for dog domestication ...

The bond between humans and dogs is one of nature's most enduring partnerships, but exactly when it began has long been a mystery. Now, a new study has turned back the clock. The study, titled "Dogs ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected animal populations. A new study of a catastrophic volcanic eruption during ...

Learn about the assemblage of fossils discovered at a water cave in central Texas, shedding light on Ice Age megafauna that ...

A landmass that once connected Britain to mainland Europe had temperate forests that could have sustained Stone Age people ...

Researchers have identified the long-mysterious Toronto “subway deer” as a previously unknown extinct deer related to the ...

Research suggests hunter-gatherers were feeding dogs and giving them ritual burials as early as the last ice age ...

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Like in its two previous seasons, Prehistoric Planet on Apple TV takes extensive research and the latest CGI technology to recreate an ancient ecosystem and film it like it’s a nature docuseries. This ...

Using cutting-edge ancient DNA analysis, scientists have found evidence of trees like oak, elm, and hazel growing on this now-submerged landscape over 16,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than ...

Ciara Wanket drilling for sedaDNA samples in Canada’s Yukon territory. This ash layer from the volcano eruption she studied is visible as a pale stripe in the dark permafrost sediment. For the first ...