A new study in American Antiquity presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by ...

New research identifies more than 600 objects discovered in the United States as two-sided dice crafted by Native Americans.

The horse originated in North America around four million years ago. As changing sea levels created land bridges between continents, the horse traveled into Eurasia. A team of 57 international ...

The megafaunal extinctions of the late Pleistocene epoch took out 90% of Australia's large species — and nearly 40% of those ...

The new research suggests use of dice in games of chance more than 6,000 years before such practices appeared in Europe ...

The cave bear, Ursus spelaeus, was a prominent member of the Pleistocene megafauna in Europe, whose evolutionary history and ecological dynamics continue to captivate palaeontologists and evolutionary ...

Samuel Arman and colleagues’ close examination of tooth microwear among living and extinct kangaroo species suggests that most of the species living in Australia during the Late Pleistocene had a ...