From the caves of Ice Age France to the stone enclosures of southeastern Turkey, a recurring tradition of human animal hybrids hints at trance, costume, and shamanic journeys at the dawn of culture.

Archaeologists have unearthed rare artefacts dating to the last ice age at a cave in Australia’s Blue Mountains, providing definitive proof that the rugged ranges were once occupied by the continent’s ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Hidden beneath the surface, a pristine underwater cave can preserve traces of vanished worlds with a clarity that dry land rarely matches. In the still water and sealed chambers, sediments, bones, and ...

Albuquerque museum curator helps identify Speleotherium logani, a previously unknown muskox relative that roamed the region ...

LOVELL — Falling 100 feet down into a dark cave is (almost) never a good thing. It is easy to imagine: a mountain lion sprinting after an antelope at 45 mph, both animals cresting a low rise. The ...

"Many of the chapters were previously presented at a cave paleontology symposium at the National Speleological Society convention in Sullivan, Missouri, in the summer of 1997"--Pref. Sloth remains ...

Scientists have uncovered the remains of a vast animal community that lived in the European Arctic 75,000 years ago. The bones of 46 types of animals – including mammals, fish and birds – were ...

City of Phoenix archaeologist Dr. Todd Bostwick speaks about and shows slides he took of the Paleolithic caves in southern France housing the cave art of the Cro-Magnon culture. Wed., June 3, 7:30-9 p ...

Reindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday. The find, revealed by the melting permafrost, was ...

Ice caves, as unique components of the cryosphere, offer invaluable archives of past and present climate conditions. Their perennial ice deposits and distinct internal dynamics provide insights into ...

Reindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday. The find, revealed by the melting permafrost, was ...