A massive discovery was unearthed by Russian researchers in Siberia, digging up complete remains from animals of the Pleistocene Epoch, also colloquially known as the Ice Age. This Siberian cave was ...

Zion National Park is known for iconic species, such as bighorn sheep and the endangered California condor. But, once upon a ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...

In a far northeastern corner of Yakutia, about 1,600 kilometers from Yakutsk, ecologist Sergei Zimov and his son Nikita have created what they call Pleistocene Park. They have turned a ...

In the study, Trinkaus notes that the “patterns and incidence of developmental abnormalities and anomalies” could provide insight into Pleistocene consanguinity. In other words, it’s likely that ...

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago. Scientists have found what they believe may be the earliest evidence ...

To laypeople, the "muck" found in certain areas of Alaska and Yukon is just dirt – dark, silty, often frozen, and full of plant material. To miners, it is somewhat of a nuisance. When dug out and left ...

About 2.6 million years ago, an oddly bright light arrived in the prehistoric sky and lingered there for weeks or months. It was a supernova some 150 light years away from Earth. Within a few hundred ...