Humans have become a geologic force by cooking the planet — using fire on a scale that is altering land, water, air and ...

The Ice Age was a hard period in Earth's history, but ancient humans were quite the hardy bunch. They managed survive and ...

Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.

During the Ice Age, early humans lived alongside large animals like mammoths, saber-toothed cats and giant ground sloths.

Scientists have found proof that the early humans who lived in North America during the last Ice Age mainly hunted and ate ...

Researchers found that her diet primarily consisted of meat from megafauna, the largest animals in an ecosystem, particularly ...

Paleoecologist Emily Lindsey on the wildfires that led to mass extinction during California’s Ice Age. Listen to The ...

Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.

The over-representation of females, compared to other mammoth bone assemblages, and the inclusion of juvenile remains led the researchers to believe that Ice Age humans were primarily targeting ...