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

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History invites visitors to explore two remarkable chapters in the story of life on ...

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 ...

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, ...

Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to its own peril, the famed dodo bird became an icon of extinction when it disappeared from the island of Mauritius, and from Earth, in the 17th century, ...

The dodo is usually depicted as a slow, dim-witted, goofy-looking bird, a total evolutionary loser. But what if, for all these centuries, the dodo bird has just been misunderstood? Bessent says White ...