Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools—it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of ...

The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium in Highland Park is welcoming some new — well, actually really, really old — animals. More than ...

Romulus and Remus, two snow-white canids with powerful shoulders and wide jaws, look like something out of myth. In a way, ...

The dire wolf was one of the most formidable predators in the Americas during the last Ice Age, possessing a body more stout ...

A teenager in Iowa discovered a 34,000-year-old mastodon jaw, offering a rare glimpse into the Ice Age giants that once ...

Startup Colossal Biosciences has edited the DNA of a gray wolf to produce what it says is a de-extincted animal. Does that ...

Colossal, the company looking to bring back the woolly mammoth from extinction has born three dire wolves, an animal extinct ...

Samples drilled from deep beneath the sea have revealed just how much global sea levels changed following the last ice age. Melting ice caps in North America, Antarctica and Europe caused sea ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) New geological data reveals that global sea levels rose rapidly after the last ice age, with peaks exceeding 1 meter per century during the early Holocene. This ...

which stretched from the British Isles to the Arctic seas during the last ice age. Such land deformation results from glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), which describes how Earth’s crust ...

The last glacial maximum, which lasted from 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, was the most severe phase of the Late Pleistocene ice age. During this period, massive ice sheets and polar ice caps covered ...