The woolly mammoth was one of the most impressive animals of the Ice Age. With its size and adaptability, it dominated frozen ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Researchers have identified the long-mysterious Toronto “subway deer” as a previously unknown extinct deer related to the ...

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 ...

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.

Ancient DNA recovered from the floor of the North Sea shows that the lost land of Doggerland was covered in temperate forests and supported large land mammals during the Ice Age, long before it ...

Ancient DNA preserved in seabed sediments suggests Doggerland hosted temperate forests far earlier than expected.

Learn how ancient DNA uncovered Ice Age forests on sunken Doggerland and revealed a landscape that once linked Britain to mainland Europe.

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 ...

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 ...

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The North Sea is home to the remains of a vast land that has been lost to time and is referred to as Doggerland, the area of ...