Hippos from Central Europe were assumed to have gone extinct around 115,000 years ago when the temperate conditions of the ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...

Analysis of bone finds shows the heat-loving semi-aquatic mammals inhabited part of present-day Germany around 47,000 to ...

A new study shows farming and livestock reshaped global mammal communities, collapsing natural boundaries after the last Ice ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions. Plants with frost-resistant tissues, beetles with antifreeze-like blood, ...

Giant camels used to roam what’s now Los Angeles. If you visit the city’s La Brea asphalt seeps, you can see their bones, ...

Amid busy construction crews racing to build an airport in Mexico, scientists are unearthing more and more mammoth skeletons in what has quickly become one of the world's biggest concentrations of the ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, Southern California was teeming with giant sloths, ancient bears, saber-toothed cats, mammoths, and more. But then all at once, these giant mammals went extinct, and ...

Archaeology Day returns to the Ross County Heritage Center on April 19. The event will run from 1 to 5 p.m., according to an announcement. This is the eighth year the Ross County Historical Society, ...

The La Brea Tar Pits – home to more than 3.5 million Ice Age fossils – is one of the planet’s best-kept records of what it was like in the area we now know as Southern California over the last 60,000 ...