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 ...

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.

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 ...

Deep inside a labyrinth cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceroses into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie that ...

However, 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 ...

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 ...

And how does it affect science? Extinction is a natural part of life. But that doesn't mean we have to forget what extinct species look like. Whether in cave paintings or films, humans have been ...

The Grotte de Cussac in France’s southwestern Dordogne is home to ancient secrets, including prehistoric cave artworks ...

Discovered in 2000 by an amateur cave explorer, the Grotte de Cussac in the Dordogne department holds ancient human remains, traces of long-extinct bears ... both animals and stylized feminine ...