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

(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 ...

"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 ...

While the statement doesn’t name a specific mammoth species, the tusk might have belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant cousin of the more familiar woolly mammoth. The shaggy elephantine animal ...

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 ...