Reconstructed Cave Lion. Image by Pit1233, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. The cave lion is believed to have roamed the Earth around 370,000 to 10,000 years ago, thriving in colder climates that ...

The fact that the last Ice Age resulted in rising sea levels was ... Next up, read about the extinct cave lion species scientists are trying to bring back to life. Then, learn about the oldest ...

Evidence collected from a cave in modern-day Poland shows several signs that ice age humans who lived in the area over 18,000 years ago may have practiced what researchers are calling a form of ...

The fact that the last Ice Age resulted in rising sea levels was a lucky break ... “We had no record of these animals making it back across the isthmus again until now,” said Schubert. Next up, read ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — An international research team has gained new insights into the burial rituals of Late Ice Age societies in Central Europe. Signs of human remains from the Maszycka Cave in ...

At age 75, Vadevino Alano keeps up ... from a colder and drier climate” during ice ages. Ground sloths might also have used the caves to hide offspring from predators. But the idea that the ...

A team of scientists led by Francesc Marginedas of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in Spain studied the human remains in the Maszycka Cave near Krakow in Poland, where ...

Ice-age children are behind some unusual drawings in the Las Monedas Cave in Spain, a new study claims. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd talks with Isobel Wisher, a postdoctoral researcher in the ...

It is often referred to as "the last ice age" and is best known for hosting now-extinct megafauna, such as woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius), giant ground sloths and saber-toothed cats.

But in these Stone Age Pavlovian jaws, Willman noticed that the wear was on the cheek side of the teeth instead. Related: Rare skeletons up to 30,000 years old reveal when ancient humans went ...