The last major extinction Scientists often call the past 66 million years of Earth's history the Age of Mammals. During this time, our furry relatives took advantage of the extinction of the ...

Roughly 13,000 years ago, Ice Age animals such as saber-toothed cats, the American lion and mammoths started going extinct in the Los Angeles basin, about a thousand years before their extinction ...

Picture the frozen winds of the Ice Age tearing across vast, wild plains. Imagine two giants—one with fangs like daggers, the ...

A boom in vegetation at the end of the last ice age may have created so much pollen, it blocked mammoths' sense of smell. A ...

The extinction of large, Ice Age mammals coincided with the arrival of humans, according to researchers who studied bones from the La Brea Tar Pits and Lake Elsinore. 8 min. Alice Coltrane’s daughter ...

Discover the fascinating story of the woolly mammoth, an Ice Age giant. Learn about its features, habitat, extinction, and ...

A pair of 14,000-year-old "puppies" found melting out of the permafrost in Siberia have undergone genetic testing, proving ...

Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering company working to bring back the woolly mammoth, has actually already brought back one of its extinct Ice Age cohabitants: the dire wolf. The Dallas ...

Climate Change Probably Drove Ice Age Western Europeans To Extinction European populations varied greatly over 40,000 years according to conditions, and when things got coldest people barely ...

Comet "Shower" Killed Ice Age Mammals? Ancient extinction could be linked to annual Taurid meteors, ... (8 degrees Celsius) just as Earth was thawing out from the last ice age.

The causes range from the Late Ordovician ice age to the Jurrasic period's rising CO2 concentration. In the worst mass extinction event of our time, it's thought an asteroid impact may have ...