Around 50,000 years ago, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna. Mammoths roamed the tundra, while towering ...

"An animal's shape may be heavily affected by ... and dozens of other large Ice Age mammals all vanished by about 11,000 years ago. Many scientists cite climate change. Others say it was humans ...

(See a list of all 35 vanished genera of North American Ice Age mammals.) But some skeptics ... It's one thing to find a campsite with some animal bones in it, he says, quite another to find ...

The Kostenki 11 site, located near the Don River, just 300 kilometers from Moscow, is one of the most significant Upper ...

Not cute and endearing like present-day sloths in South America, these sloths were one of the strangest animals of the ice age. They weighed as much, or more, than the short-faced bear at 1 tonne ...

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 ... pattern had emerged: Ice ages last about 100,000 years followed by warmer interglacials of 10,000 to 15,000 years each. The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ...

For the mammals we studied ... But they seemed able to tolerate the ice age conditions while other animals withdrew to refugia. Perhaps most important of all is that among the species that ...