Why Minnesota chose the common loon as its state bird, and how its haunting call became the sound of summer lakes.

It finally happened. We teamed up for a classic day of SCUBA diving in a Florida river in search of Ice Age fossils. These waters date back to the Pleistocene, between 1.8 million and 10,000 years old ...

Roughly 21 miles off the coast of São Paulo, Brazil lies Ilha da Queimada Grande, more commonly known as Snake Island. The ...

Dachshunds are adorable wiener dogs that will leave you grinning. These featured pups are no exception, with silly antics and smiles making everyone say 'lol'.

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 ...

When the peaks of the Sangre de Cristo mountains become snowcapped, a flurry of bird adaptations sweeps across the foothills. We marvel at the continent-spanning journeys of migratory birds seeking ...

CROSS PLAINS, Wis. (WKOW) -- The Ice Age Trail Alliance recently acquired 100 acres of land in Dane County. The land will connect the SwampLovers' Preserve to the Village of Cross Plains' Hickory Hill ...

Brielle “Brie” Bird has died at the age of 9 after battling stage-4 cancer. Bird’s mom, Kendra Bird, announced the news via Instagram on Friday, December 12. Her daughter passed away the day before.

An ancient lake that thrived during the last Ice Age has reemerged in California's Death Valley National Park, after a record spell of rainfall hit the area, the National Park Service said. Informally ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – A team of researchers has identified an Ice Age relative of the muskox from fossils uncovered in Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The new species, named Speleotherium logani, ...