For many people, thinking of Ice Age animals evokes images of woolly mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. But in ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

It’s easy to assume P. goliah and other giant kangaroos lost their ability to hop as a result of all that bulk. After all, ...

The findings, published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, show that woolly rhinos remained "genetically healthy" until the end of the last Ice Age. Scientists say the species therefore ...

Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...

DNA found inside an Ice Age wolf challenges what we thought about how woolly rhinos died out.

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A new study gives scientists a fresh look at what life was like in the Las Vegas valley more than 12,000 years ago. Before the strip, Southern Nevada was home to ice-age animals.

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...