A Barrackville man known to his friends and family as “Wooly Mammoth” passed away Oct. 10 at J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown. Emmel Ray Garton Jr. is survived by his wife of 54 years, Mary ...

Scientists thawed ancient soil in the lab and tiny nematodes, Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, “woke up” after being frozen for ...

Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...

Once believed extinct in Europe for over 100,000 years, hippos actually survived there until 31,000 years ago—enduring deep ...

Prioritizing which animals and plants to help is driven mostly by whether we like them or not. Some experts say that may not ...

A simple change in species composition can impact the course of evolution: A research team from the University of Bern and the University of British Columbia in Canada shows that the presence of just ...

European fossils display very low genetic diversity, indicating a small isolated herd marooned in the Upper Rhine Graben ...

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 ...

Introduction: In order to effectively manage ecosystems, it is important to understand how the structure and function of the ecosystem are measured and interpreted, and ecosystem multifunctionality ...

Hippos survived in icy Europe far longer than thought, revealing surprising warmth and resilience during Ice Age.