Cavemen preferred to hunt female mammoths, analysis of ancient DNA suggests. Researchers in Sweden found mammoth bones formed naturally tended to be male, while those associated with hunts were more ...

Top Image: Two mammoth ivory bird figurines from Hohle Fels Cave, Germany, dating to approximately 40,000 years ago. The ...

Measuring less than an inch long, the figurines were buried beneath Germany's Hohle Fels Cave, where some of the world's ...

After analyzing more than 500 mammoth bones, researchers found that ancient humans disproportionately hunted female mammoths ...

New research shows that they were highly selective in the mammoths they picked to hunt. Using genetic data from bones at 11 ...

A study shows Ice Age human sites are overwhelmingly female, resolving debates over whether bone accumulations stemmed from human hunting ...

A Texas biotechnology company has staked its reputation on a goal that sounds like science fiction: producing a living animal ...

Ancient DNA from 500+ mammoth bones reveals Ice Age hunters targeted female woolly mammoths, reshaping ideas on prehistoric ...

Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) were among the top prizes for human Ice Age hunters. The giant, 10,000-pound mammals ...

Analyzing ancient DNA from more than 500 mammoth bones, an international team of researchers found that Ice Age humans ...

Genetic tests of mammoth remains have found a stark contrast in the sex ratio between sites where the animals died naturally ...