The end of American lions in Alaska may have been due to changes that also doomed other creatures, including the woolly ...

Grizzly and black bears remind humans that we are not at the top of the food chain in Alaska. Ancient Alaskans shared the ...

Besides the obvious fact that we might one day lose the North American lion to excessive hunting, the “sport” also creates an unnatural selective pressure that affects the genetics of mountain lion ...

This lion became extinct over 13,000 years ago during the Pleistocene period. When the lion skull fossil was first found, ...

Two species of prehistoric lions include Panthera atrox, also known as the American cave lion, and Panthera spelaea, also ...

In a tragedy that made international headlines, Cecil the lion, a 13-year-old pride leader described as the “biggest tourist attraction” of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, was killed by American ...

The Clovis culture was a prehistoric Native American people that lived roughly 13,000 years ago in North America near the end of the Pleistocene epoch. The culture—known for its distinctive ...

Most fossils of the extinct creatures have no heads, but researchers analyzed complete fossils of juveniles and were able to ...

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This collection of viewable prehistoric artifact 3D models was produced by the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program by 3D scanning casts, other replicas, and some original objects which are now on ...

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