In 2024, researchers challenged a decades-old theory about the extinction of woolly mammoths that they didn't die out the way we thoughtScientists now believe a sudden event caused the extinction of the last woolly mammoths. These mammoths became isolated on Wrangel Island a...
28 Jul, 2026, 01.21 AM IST
In 2021, a British geologist dated footprints at New Mexico's White Sands to 21,000+ years old: Pushing humans' arrival in North America back 5,000 yearsExciting discoveries at White Sands National Park challenge what we know about North America's past. Unearthed ancient human footprints, es...
20 Jun, 2026, 05.26 PM IST
Ancient squirrels ate meat like 'zombies,' and the proof is in the poopFrozen ancient squirrel feces from Canada's Yukon have revealed a lost Ice Age world. These coprolites, dating back up to 700,000 years, co...
10 Jun, 2026, 04.28 PM IST
In 1979, a Wisconsin farmer saved an oversized bone from his field, and it later led archaeologists to a butchered mammoth siteIn the heart of Wisconsin, a farmer stumbled upon a colossal bone back in 1979, which was later confirmed to be from a mammoth. This extrao...
06 Jun, 2026, 05.56 PM IST
In 2024, scientists studied a 52,000-year-old mammoth, and found something ancient DNA was never expected to keepA remarkably preserved Siberian woolly mammoth, dating back 52,000 years, has yielded an astonishing discovery: fossilized chromosomes. Thi...
04 Jun, 2026, 04.53 PM IST
Scientists found rare microscopic Ice Age giant residues on ancient tools in the Carolinas, and it changed what they knew about early American huntersArchaeologists in the Carolinas have found direct evidence of Ice Age hunters killing megafauna. Using advanced protein residue and microsc...
26 May, 2026, 05.22 PM IST
In 1997, construction workers building a laser facility found enormous mammoth bones that surprised scientists with evidence of California’s ancient past from the ice ageConstruction workers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory unearthed mammoth bones in 1997. The discovery occurred during excavation fo...
25 May, 2026, 06.23 PM IST
In 2018, workers building a major English highway uncovered giant Ice Age bones that revealed Britain sits on an ancient mammoth territoryA Cambridgeshire highway project crew unearthed massive Ice Age mammoth bones, revealing a prehistoric landscape. This significant find, un...
22 May, 2026, 05.19 PM IST
In 2017, workers building a police and fire facility in Colorado accidentally exposed the fossils of Torosaurus, which rewrote Colorado's prehistoric mapA construction site in Thornton, Colorado, unexpectedly unearthed massive fossilized bones in 2017, halting development for a public safety...
22 May, 2026, 03.26 PM IST
In 1798, farm workers digging mud in New York accidentally pulled out the bones of an Ice Age giant that no one had ever seen beforeIn 1798, farm workers unearthed giant ancient bones in New York's Hudson Valley. This discovery of a mastodon, an Ice Age mammal, captivate...
19 May, 2026, 03.04 PM IST
What construction workers discovered beneath a South Dakota housing site became one of North America’s richest mammoth fossil localitiesIn 1974, construction workers in Hot Springs, South Dakota, unearthed a significant Ice Age fossil site. The discovery revealed numerous ma...
13 May, 2026, 07.06 PM IST
When a 9-year-old tripped in the New Mexico desert, he accidentally uncovered the remains of an ancient elephant relative from 1.2 million years agoA remarkable fossil discovery in New Mexico, made by a 9-year-old boy, has unearthed a 1.2-million-year-old stegomastodon skull. This chanc...
12 May, 2026, 07.05 PM IST
What Lies Beneath California’s Coast Is Changing How We See Ice Age HistoryBeneath California's modern coastline lie remnants of an ancient Ice Age landscape, revealed by submerged village sites and megafauna fossi...
17 Mar, 2026, 06.59 PM IST
What Scientists Found at Boxgrove: How a 500,000-Year-Old Elephant Bone Tool Is Rewriting Early Human HistoryA remarkable discovery in southern England has rewritten history. Archaeologists found a 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer at the Boxgr...
11 Mar, 2026, 11.15 AM IST
CIA's brand new mission! Backs firm that aims to 'genetically resurrect woolly mammoth', read detailsThe first line of defense for the United States, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has recently shown a renewed interest in natural hi...
02 Oct, 2022, 09.16 PM IST
Clothes make the prehistoric manThe site uncovered pelt-making tools from sand fox, golden jackal and wildcat bones. And, rather surprising, a whale tooth - suggesting wha...
17 Sep, 2021, 11.28 PM IST
- Decoded: what caused Neanderthals to die out
London, Aug 5 (IANS) Early modern humans and Neanderthals shared a similar diet -- consisting mainly of mammoth and plants -- and also comp...
05 Aug, 2017, 06.12 PM IST