Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

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The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material ...

Chemical traces on 60,000-year-old stone arrowheads from South Africa suggest ancient hunters used plant poison.

Mammoth bones dating back between 30,000 and 40,000 years discovered in a basement in Lower Austria, a key find in a century.