For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Ancient DNA preserved in seabed sediments suggests Doggerland hosted temperate forests far earlier than expected.

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene ...

Using cutting-edge ancient DNA analysis, scientists have found evidence of trees like oak, elm, and hazel growing on this now-submerged landscape over 16,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than ...

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.

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, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an incredible time when the Earth was going through immense ...

Picture a world where massive glaciers sculpted the land, and woolly mammoths shared the plains with saber-toothed cats. This isn't a scene from a fantasy film, but rather a snapshot of Earth's ...

Koalas with the bodies of lions. Elephants the size of your dog. Gigantic, 8-foot-tall sloths. These aren’t creatures found in science fiction: They walked our planet a million years ago, during the ...

The remains of a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros recovered from an Ice Age wolf's stomach have given new clues about the demise of the species. Analysis of the rhino's genome suggests the extinct ...

When reindeer herders in Siberia spotted a small snout protruding from thawing ground, they were not expecting to uncover a 14,000‑year‑old puppy so intact that its whiskers, eyelashes, and even the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. The Ice Age tends to get flattened into a postcard: endless white, ...