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 ...

Modern humans first arrived in Europe 43,000 years ago during the last ice age. One of the areas where they took up residence was the Swabian Jura in southern Germany. Excavated from the 1860s, six ...

But as the planet cooled again, sloths began to bulk up. The largest ground sloths emerged during the Ice Ages. Big bodies helped them survive cold temperatures, conserve water, and protect ...

The tree roots caught James Gregory's eye the moment he waded into the No Name Creek, which isn't really the creek's name. And the roots weren't really tree roots. They were weird, shaped kind of ...