Scientists are continuing to strengthen the case that a fragmented comet exploded in Earth's atmosphere nearly 13,000 years ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers say atmospheric blasts could explain mass extinctions and the sudden cooling of the climate at the beginning of ...

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 ...

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

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 ...