Boasting majestic ridged horns that are prized in Chinese medicine, it was once hunted to the brink of extinction. But ...

Mammoths (Mammuthus) are prehistoric beasts that roamed tundra ecosystems during the last ice age (2.6 million to 11,700 ...

Most of us are familiar with the mammoths in the "Ice Age" movies, but how much do you really know about these creatures? Find out by taking our quiz. Research suggests a small, isolated ...

The authors introduce the world to the first real image of a saber-tooth cat, and they've picked out a variety of interesting ...

More than 500 fossils of Ice Age beasts, including saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths and huge mammoths, have been discovered in recent months by crews tunneling a new Los Angeles subway branch, ...

Known as the Younger Dryas, this partial return to ice-age conditions may have stressed ... species boundaries and wiped out all the big beasts. "[MacPhee's hyphothesis] doesn't even have ...

The icy prehistoric tundra collides with raging volcanoes while two Game Engagement Mechanics (GEMs) heat things up in ...

How Ice Age animals adapted to the cold gets clearer Though it remains a hypothesis, a long-standing question has been ...