The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study.

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly ...

Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been tricky to analyze, though – until now.

An Ice Age giant was tumbling around North America during the Late Pleistocene. About the size of a bear, it was actually a ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

A new study shows farming and livestock reshaped global mammal communities, collapsing natural boundaries after the last Ice ...

Apple TV today released a first-look clip from the new season of the award-winning natural history series Prehistoric Planet: ...

Signifying a slight change in emphasis from her early work, recent milestones in her life have inspired a string of more personal and emotive shows, though they still bear all the hallmarks of Long, ...

Ice Age, from executive producers Jon Favreau and Mike Gunton, produced by BBC Studios Natural History Unit and narrated by ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors.