Fifty thousand years ago, North America's landscapes were alive with an astonishing array of enormous creatures. Massive woolly mammoths roamed vast icy plains, while dense forests echoed with the ...

(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 ...

It's implausible that any megafauna survived the sudden onset of the Ice Age, even in the Southern Hemisphere. If any did, it's a small part of the story. The 'scientists' get their bogus carbon ...

A rare Ice Age fish is thriving in a Scottish loch where it was reintroduced after becoming extinct across the country, a new survey has found. The Vendace, considered the UK’s rarest native ...

When talking about extinct animals, there a few heavy hitters: dodos, passenger pigeons, and thylacines. Though these animals are long gone, they can teach us valuable lessons about history. The ...

It may be hard to imagine a time when giant mastodons and other long-extinct animals were roaming the prairies of South ...

LOVELL — Falling 100 feet down into a dark cave is (almost) never a good thing. It is easy to imagine: a mountain lion sprinting after an antelope at 45 mph, both animals cresting a low rise. The ...

Koalas with the bodies of lions. Elephants the size of your dog. Gigantic, 8-foot-tall sloths. These aren’t creatures found in science fiction: They walked our planet a million years ago, during the ...