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

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.

Kākāpō ( Strigops habroptilus) are large, flightless, nocturnal parrots with mottled green and yellow plumage that only breed ...

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.

Somewhere between life and death is the Alaskan Tree Frog. Discover how this amphibian freezes and lives to tell the tale.

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ...

Winter may be settling in across the Juniata River Valley, but Little Buffalo State Park is keeping things lively with a full lineup of free programs designed for families, homeschoolers or anyone ...

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 ...

Owls and other talon-ted species at the White Mountain Nature Center remind audiences of the importance of recycling and ...

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff fuels plankton blooms that ...

Around 18,000 years ago, ice age people in what is now Ukraine likely weathered the extremely harsh climate by building parts of their shelters out of mammoth bones, a new study finds. The mammoth ...

These days, it’s common knowledge that birds are living dinosaurs. Victorian naturalists proposed the notion after spotting similarities between dinosaur fossils and contemporary bird skeletons. But ...