Excavations in Czechia revealed a prehistoric mammoth hunting camp, complete with mammoth skeletons. Screengrab from Oblastní muzeum v Ústí nad Labem's Facebook post From the duck blind to the tree ...

A study of a 12,800-year-old skull of a toddler offers a glimpse at how early Americans found food, and how their hunts may have led to a mass extinction. By Carl Zimmer For millions of years, North ...

Hunting by humans played a bigger role in the demise of the woolly mammoth than previously thought, a long-range analysis suggests. Woolly mammoths faced two major threats: habitat loss because of a ...

Researchers have linked the travels of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth with the oldest known human settlements in Alaska, providing clues about the relationship between the iconic species and some of ...

Popular depictions of prehistoric hunts tend to show ancient humans hurling their spears into mammoths and mastodons. But such a technique would have been less than useless — leaving a hunter with no ...