There are currently 15 well-documented Late Pleistocene localities in North America in which Clovis points are found ...

A team of scientists led by Liu Wu and Wu Xiujie from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported the first ever Middle ...

Intense, violent attacks by large packs of some of the world's biggest carnivores -- including extinct lions much larger than those of today, and sabertooth cats -- limited the population sizes of ...

The gradient from Pleistocene to Holocene covered many millennia, but I show here that in AK–YT the portion of the Pleistocene–Holocene transition (P/HT) most critical for large mammals and their ...

The environment encountered when the first people emigrated into the New World was variable and ever-changing, according to a Penn State geologist. "The New World was not a nice quiet place when ...

During the 2.6 million year Quaternary Period, the climate repeated a glacial and interglacial cycle, caused by changes in the geographical distribution of solar radiation due to orbital changes ...