An Ice Age giant was tumbling around North America during the Late Pleistocene. About the size of a bear, it was actually a ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...

Introduction -- Crises in the history of life -- The Ice Age and the megafauna -- Cold case : the search for the Ice Age killer -- Northern Eurasia : woolly rhinos, cave bears, and giant deer -- North ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study.

Researchers have discovered huge landforms deep beneath the North Sea that suggest the region was swallowed by a giant ice sheet toward the middle of the last ice age. The scientists captured these ...

Hippos survived in icy Europe far longer than thought, revealing surprising warmth and resilience during Ice Age.

Hippos in Ice Age Germany? New research reveals that these warm-loving giants roamed central Europe far later than believed. Hippos, which today live only in sub-Saharan Africa, managed to survive in ...

Hippos from Central Europe were assumed to have gone extinct around 115,000 years ago when the temperate conditions of the ...

Seattle’s geography resulted from an ice sheet that scoured the landscape 16,000 years ago. From the hills and ridges that all run north to south to the huge freshwater lakes that define the region, ...