The giant, short-faced hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris was the largest Hyaenidae ever
existed and the one that perfectly embodied the distinctive bone-cracking adaptations of this …

The unprecedented rate of extinction calls for efficient use of genetics to help conserve
biodiversity. Several recent genomic and simulation-based studies have argued that the …

Abstract Denisova Cave in southern Siberia is the type locality of the Denisovans, an archaic
hominin group who were related to Neanderthals,,–. The dozen hominin remains recovered …

The many high-resolution tools that are uniquely applicable to specimens from the
Quaternary period (the past~ 2.5 Ma) provide an opportunity to cross-validate data and test …

The relative importance of introgression for diversification has long been a highly disputed
topic in speciation research and remains an open question despite the great attention it has …

Large carnivores are generally sensitive to ecosystem changes because their specialized
diet and position at the top of the trophic pyramid is associated with small population sizes …

Caves are primary sites for studying human and animal subsistence patterns and genetic
ancestry throughout the Palaeolithic. Iberia served as a critical human and animal refugium …

Homotherium was a genus of large-bodied scimitar-toothed cats, morphologically distinct
from any extant felid species, that went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene [1–4]. They …

Paleogenomic research can elucidate the evolutionary history of human and faunal
populations. Although the Levant is a key land-bridge between Africa and Eurasia, thus far …

The cave lion is an extinct felid that was widespread across the Holarctic throughout the Late
Pleistocene. Its closest extant relative is the lion (Panthera leo), but the timing of the …