Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

This isn’t art — it’s evidence. Giant sloths, Ice Age horses, bizarre extinct beasts… all drawn with chilling accuracy across 8 miles of Colombian cliffs. And it may be 12,600 years old.

There was a time, a dozen years ago, when you couldn’t turn on a TV in Florida without seeing an ad for the Mosaic Co. You’d ...

More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of Palaeophis colossaeus, a 12-meter-long ancient sea snake that once ruled prehistoric ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made at the bottom of Florida's Steinhatchee River, where divers uncovered a 500,000-year-old treasure trove of Ice Age fossils. This remarkable find includes ...

Possible factors in the extinction of many large animals include include hunting and climate stability since the last ice age ...

For a long time, the end of the Ice Age felt like a slow fading rather than a sharp break. Mammoths vanished. Old ways of ...

Few know that avocados nearly disappeared from the Earth long ago. Their survival is tied to a turn in natural history and an ...

Some nights, when I should be doing something sensible or useful, I end up looking at pictures of blue whales and feeling very, very tiny. We talk a lot about the megafauna that are gone – mammoths, ...