In a twist for archaeologists, two ancient human sites in Spain recently yielded a treasure trove of bones—packed inside mounds of fossilized hyena poop. The million-year-old droppings are part ...

A study published Tuesday in journal “Open Quaternary” confirmed scientist’s suspicions that hyenas roamed the Arctic during the last ice age. The study examined two fossil teeth that ...

This Ice Age fossil tooth—tucked away for years in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Nature—belonged to the “running hyena” Chasmaporthetes, according to a new University at ...

During this time the earth went from interglacial to the last “ice age” and back to an interglacial again, and so the biogeography of hyenas during the waxing and waning of the glaciers has ...

Csotonyi What makes this find remarkable: "[There have] been over 50,000 bones of ice-age animals found in the Old Crow area in the past, and we only have two bones or two teeth of this hyena ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. By reading the genes in ancient poop, researchers have uncovered the diet and descendents ...

An international team of researchers published a study in the journal Nature Communications, revealing new insights into life ...

The cave hyena, named Crocuta crocuta spelaea, lived for about 1 million years in Eurasia, before dying out some 10,000 to 30,000 years ago. Not only were they about 25 percent larger than modern ...

John Stewart said, "During the Ice Age just over 40 thousand years ago ... woolly rhinos and cave hyenas as well as the more familiar horses and reindeer. These mammals are well known to science ...

Unlike many other large carnivores that went extinct at the end of the last Ice Age (cave bear, sabretoothed cats, cave hyena), the brown bear is one of the lucky survivors that made it through to ...

cave bear and spotted hyena, during the last ice age. Ice age fossil mammal teeth dating from 56,000 years ago were donated to Brixham by the Thyer family. In 1945 the young teenaged Dennis Thyer ...