Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The unusual proboscis of the Saiga antelope helps filter dust, regulate air temperature, and protect its lungs in harsh steppe ...

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 ...

A Siberian cave known for its Denisovan remains has yielded a new discovery, a previously unknown Ice Age mammal closely ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to survive the cold during the ice age. A team of paleontologists and ...

Scientists uncover a previously unknown yak-like Ice Age mammal in Siberia's Denisova Cave using ancient DNA, revealing a hidden branch of evolution.

From woolly rhinos to wolves, brown bears to bison, many Ice Age animals have been recovered from the world’s permafrost. Apart from being slightly crushed and maybe a little bit nibbled, very often ...

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.

A paleontologist snorkeling through the dark underwater passages of a Texas cave made a startling discovery: the streambed was littered with fossils of Ice Age animals, including species never before ...

Researchers in Peru discovered a 15,000-year-old Ice Age tar pit overflowing with fossilized predators, microfossils, and ...

About two million years ago Earth entered the last Ice Age, known more correctly as the Pleistocene epoch. Paleo-humans coexisted with bizarre-looking Ice Age mammals like woolly mammoths, ...

Extraordinary discovery of bones from early Ice Age period could reshape how we understand and respond to today’s climate shifts. Climate change is actually nothing new to our old planet. It has long ...

The unusual proboscis of the Saiga antelope helps filter dust, regulate air temperature, and protect its lungs in harsh steppe environments. This Ice Age survivor once lived alongside species like the ...