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A Rockfall Blocked This Cave Entrance, Preserving A Stone Age Dwelling Exactly As It Was Left 17,000 Years AgoStructures of the Zone IV from the Lower Gallery of La Garma.

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A Rockfall Blocked This Cave Entrance, Preserving A Stone Age Dwelling Exactly As It Was Left 17,000 Years AgoStructures of the Zone IV from the Lower Gallery of La Garma.
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A Rockfall Blocked This Cave Entrance, Preserving A Stone Age Dwelling Exactly As It Was Left 17,000 Years Ago

clock-iconAugust 12, 2026

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Two Tiny Ivory Figurines Dating Back 40,000 Years Add To Enduring Mystery Of Why There Are So Few Birds Depicted In Ice Age ArtTwo ivory figurines of birds. The one on the left has its back to us showing patterned feathers on its wings, the one of the right is flatter and has a little beak and eyes.

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Two Tiny Ivory Figurines Dating Back 40,000 Years Add To Enduring Mystery Of Why There Are So Few Birds Depicted In Ice Age ArtTwo ivory figurines of birds. The one on the left has its back to us showing patterned feathers on its wings, the one of the right is flatter and has a little beak and eyes.
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Two Tiny Ivory Figurines Dating Back 40,000 Years Add To Enduring Mystery Of Why There Are So Few Birds Depicted In Ice Age Art

clock-iconJuly 31, 2026

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Ancient DNA Reveals Woolly Mammoth With A Sex Chromosome Combination Never Before Seen In An Extinct SpeciesIllustration of woolly mammoths walking on Ice Age snow

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Ancient DNA Reveals Woolly Mammoth With A Sex Chromosome Combination Never Before Seen In An Extinct SpeciesIllustration of woolly mammoths walking on Ice Age snow
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Ancient DNA Reveals Woolly Mammoth With A Sex Chromosome Combination Never Before Seen In An Extinct Species

clock-iconJuly 30, 2026
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Ice Age Zombies? 700,000-Year-Old Fossilized Poop Reveals Squirrels Crawled Out Of The Ground To Feast On Dead Mammoths, Bison, And Big Catsmammoths walk in the background as a group of ground squirrels feast on the carcass of a dead mammoth

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Ice Age Zombies? 700,000-Year-Old Fossilized Poop Reveals Squirrels Crawled Out Of The Ground To Feast On Dead Mammoths, Bison, And Big Catsmammoths walk in the background as a group of ground squirrels feast on the carcass of a dead mammoth
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Ice Age Zombies? 700,000-Year-Old Fossilized Poop Reveals Squirrels Crawled Out Of The Ground To Feast On Dead Mammoths, Bison, And Big Cats

clock-iconJune 15, 2026

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Frozen In Time For Over 30,000 Years, Cave Lion Mummies Reveal A Legacy Of Interbreeding With Modern Lions During The Ice AgeA frozen cave lion cub named Sparta, which has been radiocarbon dated to ca 32,000 years before present and genetically identified as a female. Sparta was found in 2018 in Belaya Gora, near the Indigirka River in northeastern Siberia, and her genome was sequenced as part of this study

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Frozen In Time For Over 30,000 Years, Cave Lion Mummies Reveal A Legacy Of Interbreeding With Modern Lions During The Ice AgeA frozen cave lion cub named Sparta, which has been radiocarbon dated to ca 32,000 years before present and genetically identified as a female. Sparta was found in 2018 in Belaya Gora, near the Indigirka River in northeastern Siberia, and her genome was sequenced as part of this study
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Frozen In Time For Over 30,000 Years, Cave Lion Mummies Reveal A Legacy Of Interbreeding With Modern Lions During The Ice Age

clock-iconJune 3, 2026

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A Cold Case From The Ice Age: Someone Butchered This Mammoth 26,000 Years Ago In A Place That Was Too Cold For Humans To LiveWoolly mammoth

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A Cold Case From The Ice Age: Someone Butchered This Mammoth 26,000 Years Ago In A Place That Was Too Cold For Humans To LiveWoolly mammoth
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A Cold Case From The Ice Age: Someone Butchered This Mammoth 26,000 Years Ago In A Place That Was Too Cold For Humans To Live

clock-iconJune 3, 2026
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Evolution By Natural Selection Has Still Been Shaping The Human Species Over The Last 10,000 Years: Here's Howskulls lined up on a shelf.

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Evolution By Natural Selection Has Still Been Shaping The Human Species Over The Last 10,000 Years: Here's Howskulls lined up on a shelf.
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Evolution By Natural Selection Has Still Been Shaping The Human Species Over The Last 10,000 Years: Here's How

clock-iconApril 27, 2026

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Previously Unknown Human Lineage Discovered In Northern East Asia Survived And Adapted After The "Ice Age" EndedA photo showing a large expanse of ice giving way to water by the shore. In the foreground to the bottom right is a mound of earth or bank with rocks sticking out it it. There is a clump of brown grass at the top of it. In the distance is a mountain range just below a thick line of low cloud.

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Previously Unknown Human Lineage Discovered In Northern East Asia Survived And Adapted After The "Ice Age" EndedA photo showing a large expanse of ice giving way to water by the shore. In the foreground to the bottom right is a mound of earth or bank with rocks sticking out it it. There is a clump of brown grass at the top of it. In the distance is a mountain range just below a thick line of low cloud.
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Previously Unknown Human Lineage Discovered In Northern East Asia Survived And Adapted After The "Ice Age" Ended

clock-iconApril 4, 2026

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Neanderthals' Nifty Tailoring Skills May Have Helped Them Survive The Ice AgeNeanderthals standing around a fire

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Neanderthals' Nifty Tailoring Skills May Have Helped Them Survive The Ice AgeNeanderthals standing around a fire
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Neanderthals' Nifty Tailoring Skills May Have Helped Them Survive The Ice Age

clock-iconMarch 2, 2026

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Neanderthals, Megafauna, And Tales Of Odd Monsters In The Elwy Valley Cavesaerial view of site of special interest near St Asaph, Wales; lots of trees covering a rocky area with mountains distantly visible in the background

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Neanderthals, Megafauna, And Tales Of Odd Monsters In The Elwy Valley Cavesaerial view of site of special interest near St Asaph, Wales; lots of trees covering a rocky area with mountains distantly visible in the background
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Neanderthals, Megafauna, And Tales Of Odd Monsters In The Elwy Valley Caves

clock-iconJanuary 24, 2026
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In 1939, Archaeologists Explored A Cave And Found A Mind-Blowing Sculpture Of A Lion-Human HybridThe lion man from the Stadel Cave in Hohlenstein, Lonetal.

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In 1939, Archaeologists Explored A Cave And Found A Mind-Blowing Sculpture Of A Lion-Human HybridThe lion man from the Stadel Cave in Hohlenstein, Lonetal.
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In 1939, Archaeologists Explored A Cave And Found A Mind-Blowing Sculpture Of A Lion-Human Hybrid

clock-iconJanuary 17, 2026
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"We Need To Do Some Genetics On This": World-First As Entire Woolly Rhino Genome Recovered From Ice Age Wolf Pup's Stomacharticle image

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"We Need To Do Some Genetics On This": World-First As Entire Woolly Rhino Genome Recovered From Ice Age Wolf Pup's Stomacharticle image
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"We Need To Do Some Genetics On This": World-First As Entire Woolly Rhino Genome Recovered From Ice Age Wolf Pup's Stomach

clock-iconJanuary 14, 2026
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These Extinct Ice Age Giant Ground Sloths Were Fans Of "Cannonball Fruit", Something We Still Eat Todayeremotherium reaching into a tree for cannonball fruit

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These Extinct Ice Age Giant Ground Sloths Were Fans Of "Cannonball Fruit", Something We Still Eat Todayeremotherium reaching into a tree for cannonball fruit
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These Extinct Ice Age Giant Ground Sloths Were Fans Of "Cannonball Fruit", Something We Still Eat Today

clock-iconNovember 20, 2025
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How Could Woolly Mammoths Sense When A Storm Was Coming? By Listening With Their Feeta family of woolly mammoths standing in the snow

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How Could Woolly Mammoths Sense When A Storm Was Coming? By Listening With Their Feeta family of woolly mammoths standing in the snow
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How Could Woolly Mammoths Sense When A Storm Was Coming? By Listening With Their Feet

clock-iconNovember 19, 2025
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World's Oldest RNA Recovered From Baby Mammoth Beautifully Preserved In Permafrost For 40,000 YearsYuka the woolly mammoth on display in a frozen collection.

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World's Oldest RNA Recovered From Baby Mammoth Beautifully Preserved In Permafrost For 40,000 YearsYuka the woolly mammoth on display in a frozen collection.
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World's Oldest RNA Recovered From Baby Mammoth Beautifully Preserved In Permafrost For 40,000 Years

clock-iconNovember 14, 2025
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