In this video, we take you on a journey to the Pleistocene Epoch, a time when Earth looked vastly different from today.

Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North ...

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

We hope to extend this dataset to other Pleistocene deposits across Australia, especially those that span the interval 60,000 ...

Megafauna. Image via Unsplash Megafauna are large animals, typically characterized by their massive size compared to other species. These creatures have historically included mammals, birds, and ...

Background During the Late Pleistocene, a large number of megafauna species (i.e., animals >44 kg) on Earth became extinct. The timing and intensity of these extinctions varied across different ...

Marine megafauna, including whales and sharks, face increasing threats from human activities, impacting ocean ecosystems. A recent study by WHOI and ANU tracked these species to identify critical ...

Letter Published: 02 November 2000 Early onset and tropical forcing of 100,000-year Pleistocene glacial cycles Scott Rutherford & Steven D'Hondt Nature 408, 72–75 (2000) Cite this article ...