For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Scientists identified the tiny species of cat from a fossilized jawbone, which could date back as far as 300,000 years ago.

The hard-to-classify Chinese remains include 21 fossils found in the 1970s at the Xujiayao (Houjiayao) site located on the ...

A group of scientists just revived 13 prehistoric viruses that had been preserved beneath the Siberian permafrost. Researchers extracted samples from beneath a lake, from the wool of a mammoth, and ...

Inside, between rows of incubators and microscopes, Beth Shapiro and her team are attempting a feat straight out of science ...

The shaggy giants that roamed northern Siberia during the late Pleistocene epoch died off about 10,000 years ago, though isolated populations lingered on islands to the north and east, the last ...

"But it lacks tusks, so nobody wanted it." Mammoth bones are widespread in Yakutia, an enormous region bordering the Arctic Ocean covered by permafrost, which acts as a giant freezer for prehistoric ...

You never know what you might encounter during a casual stroll in Siberia. Local resident Pavel Efimov was ... they found that it wasn’t just the head of any kind of wolf, but that of a prehistoric ...

The new results suggest that the snow leopard experienced a gradual strengthening of such adaptation, especially since the Middle Pleistocene (0.8 million ... elevations below 1,000 m in some areas of ...

“I strongly oppose the view that previously known Asian Middle Pleistocene hominins ... Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia. DNA analysis of that tiny fossil led to the ...