Analysis of woolly rhinoceros DNA recovered from the permafrost-preserved wolf further hints that the Ice Age beasts went ...

Florida’s rivers hide a secret world from the Ice Age. Along the riverbanks, ancient fossils slowly emerge from the mud and sand. These remains tell the story of massive animals that once roamed this ...

Learning how pronghorn survived the climate changes that ended the ice ages anddrove so many other large mammals to extinction can help us adapt to our ownchanging climate.

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.

Researchers have extracted DNA and recovered the rhino's genome from a chunk of undigested meat from the stomach contents ...

Inside the stomach of an ancient wolf puppy found entombed in Siberian permafrost, scientists discovered meat from a woolly ...

About 14,400 years ago, a weeks-old wolf puppy ate its last meal - meat from a woolly rhinoceros - shortly before dying on ...

Possible factors in the extinction of many large animals include include hunting and climate stability since the last ice age ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

Standing nearly 7 feet tall and weighing as much as a small car, the Alaskan moose (Alces alces gigas) is a living relic of the Ice Age. Whether you spot a massive bull stepping out of the willows or ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...