Standing over 11 feet tall and built for speed, Arctodus wasn’t just the largest bear ever—it was a predator so terrifying, early humans may have fled entire regions to avoid it.

Nearly 800,000 years ago, early humans gathered along the shores of a lush lake in what is now northern Israel. Here, they returned again and again, hunting large animals, cooking fish over controlled ...

Bones and tools found in a Sri Lankan cave show how Homo sapiens adapted to dense rainforest environments as early as 45,000 years ago. NOVA is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

A drop in the number of huge animals 200,000 years ago may have forced ancient humans to abandon heavy-duty stone tools in favour of lightweight toolkits to hunt smaller animals. That’s according to a ...