During the coldest part of our ancient history, humans survived by tucking themselves into caves in the central Balkans, showing a resilience previously unknown to researchers and opening a fresh ...

Arctodus simus, the giant short-faced bear of Ice Age North America, was one of the largest and most intimidating carnivorous mammals to ever walk the Earth . Standing over 12 feet tall when rearing ...

(ansap/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A brainy human relative who lived during an ice age nearly 150,000 years ago adapted to the ...

Humans may have returned to Britain far earlier than scientists once believed — not long after the last ice sheet began retreating. New evidence suggests people were already moving into the British ...

A remarkable collection of ancient stone tools proves that human creativity can thrive in challenging times. The complexity of the stone tools found amidst the bones of butchered animals in central ...

It was the Dice Age. An analysis of 12,000-year-old Native American dice could potentially provide the first-ever proof of humans gambling, per a groundbreaking study published in the journal American ...

A new analysis of crystals that formed inside one of the bones shows that the site dates back to an ice age 146,000 years ago ...