Not so long ago, the trumpeting of elephants could be heard across a great deal of our planet. Wrinkly-skinned giants did not ...

"The remains are highly evocative because they enable us to make almost face-to-face connection with animals that are tens of thousands of years old." ...

We humans may or may not have killed off the giant mammals of the Ice Age. But we are unquestionably threatening innumerable species today, as we expand relentlessly into ever more of their habitats.

(See a list of all 35 vanished genera of North American Ice Age mammals.) But some skeptics, Grayson among them, have asked where's the evidence? Grayson and archeologist David Melzer of Southern ...

The arctic woolly mammoth named Kik, one of the only Ice Age mammals whose life story is known in detail, was born approximately 17,100 years ago in the Alaskan interior, a region bounded by the ...

The scientists are yet to release findings from the study, but previous studies of Ice Age mammals have yielded insights into the specimen's diet and relation to modern species. At the time of ...

Protecting remaining strongholds and minimising human impacts on food sources will be crucial to avoiding further population ...

We will then combine these datasets into ecological niche models (ENMs) in order to identify the most important factors (climatic change, vegetation change, humans) for determining the past ...

Our research will test current hypotheses to explain body size variation in ice-age mammals, including: Temperature: Large animals are better adapted to cold periods as they conserve heat more ...

Some mammals get massive ... followed by warmer interglacials of 10,000 to 15,000 years each. The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago. Sea levels rose rapidly, and the continents achieved ...