Researchers excavated the cave site in 2021 and 2022. During the 1990s, Norway experienced an increase in industrial mining projects. Many of these required workers to build extensive tunnel systems ...

Dr. Julie Meachen, lead paleontologist and a professor at Des Moines University recently talked about Wyoming’s Natural Trap ...

In a discovery that challenges long-standing views of prehistoric life, scientists have uncovered vast underground tunnels beneath Brazil and Argentina that appear to have been excavated by ...

Scientists found that different species of woolly mammoths were interbreeding, creating hybrid babies with traits from both ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study.

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene A shaft of golden light from the cave’s mouth ...

The Bering Land Bridge likely didn't emerge until around 35,000 years ago, much later than was previously thought. This ...

At a placer mine in Canada’s Klondike region, paleontologists made an unexpected and “incredible” find. Initially, only half an of an animal skull, including the jaw, was visibly sticking out of the ...

Humans only discovered Arne Ovamgrotta in 1991, but it was a haven for at least 46 species over 75,000 years ago. By Andrew Paul Published Aug 4, 2025 4:09 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

Julie Meachen, an expert in Ice Age megafauna, skirts a dirt ledge called “the Saddle” deep inside a remarkable hollow in northern Wyoming known as Natural Trap Cave. She stops to observe Megan ...