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The Ubsunur Hollow Biosphere Reserve, depicted here, contains some of the last stretches of the so-called mammoth steppe; an ecosystem in which the woolly mammoth thrived during the Pleistocene.

Bering Land Bridge Natural Preserve. Many parts of this area look similar to how it may have looked when the first humans arrived there, perhaps around 30,000 years ago. From there on, early humans may have crossed to the Americas by around...

Location of the island of Flores, Indonesia (highlighted in red).

South island of Lake Turkana in Kenya, an area in which some of the earliest hominin (i.e. human species and their immediate ancestors) fossils and tools have been found.

This carcass of a young woolly mammoth, nicknamed 'Yuka', is on display in Moscow after being found in an astonishingly good condition in Siberia. It died around 39,000 years ago and was between 6 and 11 years old.

Tusks of a woolly mammoth found in Alaska and usually residing at the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks, although when (and where) this picture was taken in December 2017 it was on loan at the Australian Museum in Sydney. It came with...

The geographical range of Homo neanderthalensis.

Drawings of stone tools belonging to the Middle Palaeolithic (sometimes called 'Mousterian') industries, found from Europe and the Near East to Africa between approximately 250,000 and 30,000 years ago. It is associated with archaic homo...

When Homo sapiens arrived in Australia, they were, for the first time, truly alone, surrounded by wildly different flora and fauna. How did they survive and populate a continent? There is a close cultural and genetic link between the First...