New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

Feeding wild animals might seem like a harmless act of kindness, but it often carries serious and unintended consequences.

Moose: North America's Misunderstood Giant More people in Alaska are injured by moose than by bears each year, yet these ...

The persistent presence of humans and their infrastructure in U.S. national parks has yielded dramatic changes in the behaviors of large animals who live there, a new study has found. Even during the ...

Recent analysis of two fossils from Australia, estimated to be about 50,000 years old, suggests that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for their meat, ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil ...