This relatively recent finding extends the timeline of the use of betel nuts thousands of years into the past, far into the ...

Ice Age humans were using mind-altering drugs 25,000 years ago. A study of ancient skeletons from the Indonesian island of ...

The Ice Age was one of the harshest periods in human history. Food was scarce, predators were everywhere, and the climate was unforgiving. Yet humans not only survived, they spread across the world.

Scientists have discovered an extinct amphibian from the ice age at Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits. The fossils shed light on a prehistoric climate.

The Ice Age franchise has seen its fair share of creative lows, while other installments from this animated saga make it ...

A new extinct spadefoot toad species, Spea labreae, was identified from ancient fossils. Dr. Alberto Cruz discovered the ...

Over 2.4 billion years ago, Earth entered one of the most extreme climate events in its history — the Huronian Glaciation. For up to 300 million years, vast ice sheets covered the planet in what may ...

Ireland's earliest known residents may have walked in from Wales, researchers say, citing evidence written on cave walls. An ...