For more than a century, vast mammoth bone deposits in Central Europe have puzzled scientists. Now EU-funded researchers are revealing what they tell us about how Ice Age humans hunted and survived.By ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a new study is rewriting that history. Utilizing ancient DNA and reliable ...

While Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived near each other and likely interacted, they usually preferred living in slightly ...

Neumark-Nord in northeastern Germany was a lake landscape in the last interglacial period. It is rich in archaeological finds discovered during lignite mining. The area in Saxony-Anhalt is one of the ...

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the continent home, researchers can now read genetic traces from teeth, bones and cave ...

Ice Age tools dating back 146,000 years, discovered in an ancient Chinese cave, reveal surprising human adaptations to a ...

Long before rising seas swallowed Doggerland beneath the North Sea, this lost landscape may have been a surprisingly lush and life-friendly haven. New DNA evidence reveals that forests of oak, elm, ...

Since the outset of the Quaternary, whales and sharks have ruled the seas, topping a food chain with otters, seals, dugongs, ...