Along Turkey’s northwestern shoreline, where the Aegean Sea meets the olive-covered ridges of Anatolia, lies a quiet district ...

Hippos from Central Europe were assumed to have gone extinct around 115,000 years ago when the temperate conditions of the ...

Discover how Homo sapiens outlasted Neanderthals – and how they helped make us who we are today. For 400,000 years, Neanderthals thrived across frigid, Ice Age Europe. What happened when Homo sapiens ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a new study is rewriting that history. Utilizing ancient DNA and reliable ...

The Aegean coast of Ayvalık in Turkey is composed of numerous islands and peninsulas today, but the region looked quite different 2.58 million—11,700 years ago during the Pleistocene Ice Age. During ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) As humanity appears all too happy to keep warming up the planet, the consequences of our actions are catching up with us. Recent measurements indicate that climate change ...

Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, survived in central Europe far longer than previously assumed. Analyses of ...

Most animals retreated to small, warmer enclaves. But some, like humans, seemed to have stayed where they were. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

DNA found in fossils from southwestern Germany suggests the populations survived in the region much longer than expected.