Data from 96 mastodon teeth reveals that the proboscidean lived in fruit-rich forests and traveled widely. Although they mostly fed on leaves, fruit was part of their diet, although more in some ...

Sloths weren’t always the slow, tree-hugging creatures we know today. For millions of years, they came in a wild variety of ...

The Vela explosion stands out as the most dramatic example, occurring when our planet was emerging from the last ice age around 13,000 years ago.

Long before highways and high-rises, Earth was home to some seriously massive, strange, and downright wild animals. These ...

The Earth has had at least five major ice ages, and humans showed up in time for the most recent one. In fact, we’re still in ...

Mastodon bones and teeth found in the Yukon were all older than 50,000 years old, while enduring farther south until about 10 ...

Wondering which animals are in the Ice Age movie? Keep reading to learn what these animals are called in real life.

Texas DOT recently found fossils of large prehistoric animals on a build site for the future Lubbock Loop 88 freeway. Details ...

It is HOT, so getting to spend some time underwater and do some SCUBA Diving felt amazing! On top of that, we were looking for Ice Age fossils in a beautiful Florida River. It was an incredible day.

Ground sloths achieved their greatest size during the last ice age—right before starting to disappear around 15,000 years ago. Given that humans arrived in North America around the same time ...

Officials said the megafauna is typical of this region, as the Panhandle has remnants of lakes from the Ice Age ... “We know we’ve found giant ground sloth by its distinctive tooth ...