Clovis points are some of the most commonly unearthed objects from the last Ice Age. Thousands have been uncovered over the past century, with some found embedded into mammoth skeletons. Clovis points ...

Depictions of ancient humans in both scientific and popular culture contexts picture them throwing spears at the thick hides of mammoths. A new study from archaeologists at UC Berkeley suggests that ...

Scientists found that different species of woolly mammoths were interbreeding, creating hybrid babies with traits from both ...

Researchers have linked the travels of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth with the oldest known human settlements in Alaska, providing clues about the relationship between the iconic species and some of ...

New fossil research shows that humans have reshaped animal communities as extensively as the great extinctions of the Ice Age ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted ...

Scientists have unearthed the remains of five enormous 25,000-year-old woolly mammoths in Austria — and they appear to have been hunted and butchered by ancient humans. The mammoths were discovered ...

(The Hill) — Popular depictions of prehistoric hunts tend to show ancient humans hurling their spears into mammoths and mastodons. But such a technique would have been less than useless — leaving a ...

An artist's rendition of Clovis people eating mammoth, and the December 4 cover of the journal Science Advances. © The image was created in a collaboration between ...

There are a number of incredible extinct creatures that once dominated the earth. Unfortunately, there are endangered species poised to be extinct by 2025 and other nearly extinct animals that are ...

A single tusk is all that remains of a mammoth that lived approximately 14,000 years ago. Yet that one tusk has enabled scientists to uncover remarkable details about her life. Using ancient DNA, ...

Mammoths need not have been hunted in that way, but it is difficult to imagine that animals weighing upwards of 20,000 pounds could be bayed up or stampeded by dogs weighing less than a hundredth of ...