A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to survive the cold during the ice age. A team of paleontologists and ...

Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, survived in central Europe far longer than previously assumed. Analyses of bone finds demonstrate that hippos inhabited the Upper Rhine Graben sometime ...

Climate change is actually nothing new to our old planet. It has long driven the evolution of Earth's flora and fauna and good thing, too: Without those major shifts, we wouldn't be here today. But as ...

From woolly rhinos to wolves, brown bears to bison, many Ice Age animals have been recovered from the world’s permafrost. Apart from being slightly crushed and maybe a little bit nibbled, very often ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene A shaft of golden light from the cave’s mouth ...

PITTSBURGH — A new temporary exhibit at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium takes visitors back in time to come face-to-face with incredible extinct animals. Ice Age: Frozen in Time runs from April 14 ...

Narrator Tom Hiddleston teases "remarkable creatures and epic clashes for survival" in a sneak peek at 'Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age' Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.

A recent excavation in Texas yielded some "colossal creatures," according to local officials – and archaeologists are hopeful more will be uncovered soon. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT ...

(Phys.org)—Small mammal populations across Europe were wiped out multiple times during the last Ice Age, due to an inability to deal with rapid climate change, according the research published today ...