New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

Incidents that make us consider the relationship between humans and wild animals are happening all over Japan, from bear ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

The persistent presence of humans and their infrastructure in U.S. national parks has yielded dramatic changes in the behaviors of large animals who live there, a new study has found. Even during the ...

A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil ...

Over the last 100,000 years, 64 percent of large animal species have gone extinct. The loss of large animals like mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths has been somewhat evenly spread over all ...