The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Ethical hunting has helped wildlife conservation in the U.S. since the late 1800s, including through regulations like hunting ...

A large portion of Texas' funding for conservation efforts comes from the more than 3.9 million hunting and fishing licenses ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

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Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago.A newly discovered cache of 27 ...

For example, warming temperatures are causing ice in the Arctic to melt at unprecedented rates, creating a shrinking habitat for polar bears and other species. These changes force wildlife to adapt, ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo provided by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), researcher Ignacio de la Torre holds ...

“We don’t believe they were hunting these animals. They were probably scavenging ... The tools may have been made and used by Homo erectus, Homo habilis or Paranthropus boisei.

By allowing free movement of animals and reducing incidents of human-wildlife conflict, such corridors support the growth of wildlife populations. One conservation group that is trying to create ...

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