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Data from 985 human fossils and some modern individuals show that during the Pleistocene, the human brain used to be at its maximum size, but suddenly became smaller in…
The new human species, Homo bodoensis, roamed the Earth half a million years ago, the ancestor
According to AFP, the findings were published by the science and technology agency of La Matanza National University, Argentina.
Giant generations of sloths died of apparent hypoxia, after gathering at a swamp at a time in the late Ice Age.
Archaeologists found many fossils of humans, mammals and stone artifacts at the site of a former cave.
Archaeologists have a remarkable discovery with cave paintings in eastern France dating to 12,000 years old, hidden under another drawing.
On March 14, Argentine scientists announced the discovery of fossils of a giant bear of the late Pleistocene.
Scientists discovered a large-sized flying chicken of kangaroo who lived in Australia 2 million years ago.
Scientists have discovered two mysterious ancient skulls in central China, which may belong to mankind that have never been known.
On October 25, residents of Mar del Plata, Argentina's Buenos Aires province, said they discovered a 3.5-million-year fossil of a pangolin in the Glyptodontidae family,…
Scientists say wild elephants living in North China 3000 years ago belong to the extinct Palaeoloxodon. Earlier, the elephant was believed to be Elephas maximus, an Asia…
Researchers said they found fossils of extinct wolves near Las Vegas, the first evidence that the mammal used to live in Nevada.
Prehistoric mammoth DNA is helping scientists develop artificial blood products for modern medicine.
Scientists say that the Earth is experiencing the sixth mass extinction event due to human activity.
It was the extinction of the giant animals in the Pleistocene that caused the scarcity of fertile arable lands in the world today.