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 ...

Sparse trees cast long shadows as the morning sun rises over the grassy woodland clearing. Elephants and rhinos gather around a quiet watering hole. A troop of baboons starts chattering as they wake ...

Forget polar bears. Thegiant short-faced bear (Arctodus simus) was the true heavyweight of North America’s ancient wilderness ...

Eelgrass from the Finnish Archipelago Sea. Eelgrasses migrated to the Atlantic from the Pacific hundreds of millennia ago, and that ancient migration left marks on their DNA that still shape them ...

Visitors to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles are accustomed to seeing recreated scenes of, say, extinct saber-toothed cats taking down a horse or bison in an open field. But according to the most ...

Joshua Allan Lindal receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. University of Manitoba provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA.

Many people are curious about the past. I remember reading H. G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” and thinking how interesting it would be if we really could find a way to travel back in time and observe our ...

Narrow rows of shallow gray bins tower to the ceiling. Resting inside are the jaw bones of saber-toothed cats and ancient coyotes that perished in the La Brea Tar Pits as many as 40,000 years ago.

YAKUTSK, October 18. /TASS/. The number of animals in the Pleistocene Park in Yakutia's north, where experts have been recreating the mammoth steppe, may be increased from 150 to 2,000, the park's ...