These 10 incredible animals once roamed Earth’s oceans, skies, and forests—but now they’re gone forever, victims of ...

The extinction of large animals in the Levant may explain why prehistoric humans did not paint on cave walls in Israel, new research from Tel Aviv University published on Monday has suggested.

The earliest Greek cave art depicting extinct animals was discovered on Crete and is believed to be at least 11,000 years old ...

Determining the age of cave art is delicate work ... The mark was made by a cave bear, an animal that went extinct 24,000 years ago, and its placement allows the team to determine that the ...

These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate, dramatic animal paintings. The multicolored cascades of prey and predator animals -- bison, deer, bears, cattle, mammoths, and reindeer ...

genome reconstruction is not the only method scientists could use to resurrect extinct animals. The aurochs, a type of prehistoric cow, is the subject of ancient cave paintings around the globe.

SYDNEY, N.S.W., May 1. -- The Wellington Caves in New South Wales are the only ones in which fossil remains have been found. The town of Wellington, in the vicinity of which the caves are situated ...

Other extinct hominin species have left similarly inconclusive artifacts. By contrast, the gorgeous animal cave paintings in Europe represent a consistent tradition. The seeds of artistic ...

especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in 1940 was of great importance for the history of prehistoric art. The hunting scenes show some 100 animal figures, which are remarkable for ...

Evidence discovered in a cave ... animals believed to have already died out on the island. “We found abundant evidence for a range of wild animals, including Red Deer, long thought to have gone ...