
The mysterious demise of Europe's massive cave bears
18 December 2018
Once more common than brown bears, cave bears didn't survive the last glacial period. Could their sad end be down to their diet, or just to being bears of very little brain?

18 December 2018
Once more common than brown bears, cave bears didn't survive the last glacial period. Could their sad end be down to their diet, or just to being bears of very little brain?

24 May 2018
The asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago caused dramatic climate change, which could mean we are underestimating how much the planet will warm in the coming centuries

3 May 2018
A gene variant that helps humans cope with colder climates also seems to have put people living in northerly regions at a higher risk of migraine

23 April 2018
A pair of mass extinctions struck in quick succession just before the dinosaur era, and the birth of a mountain range in South Africa may have been partly to blame

9 April 2018
A single bone found in the Saudi Arabian desert is at least 85,000 years old, and may shed light on the route early humans took out of Africa