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 ...

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 ...

Picture a world where massive glaciers sculpted the land, and woolly mammoths shared the plains with saber-toothed cats. This isn't a scene from a fantasy film, but rather a snapshot of Earth's ...

NEW YORK (AP) — If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an incredible time when the Earth was going through immense ...

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 ...

When reindeer herders in Siberia spotted a small snout protruding from thawing ground, they were not expecting to uncover a 14,000‑year‑old puppy so intact that its whiskers, eyelashes, and even the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. The Ice Age tends to get flattened into a postcard: endless white, ...

An illustration of Procoptodon goliah, a giant kangaroo that weighed up to about 550 pounds and went extinct around 40,000 years ago Nobu Tamura via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-3.0 For many people, ...

The remains of a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros recovered from an Ice Age wolf's stomach have given new clues about the demise of the species. Analysis of the rhino's genome suggests the extinct ...

(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 ...

The remains of a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros recovered from an Ice Age wolf's stomach have given new clues about the demise of the species.