Recent breakthroughs in the study of ancient DNA are providing unprecedented insights into the ecosystems and human history ...

In the depths of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, a team of divers has uncovered extraordinary fossil remains from two ...

From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like 'killer koalas', the visuals in this ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age.

The animal history documentary series Prehistoric Planet returns today on Apple TV with a new Ice Age installment. If ...

This documentary uncovers the rise of Pachycrocuta, the powerful bone-crushing hyena that dominated Ice Age landscapes. It explores how this massive carnivore developed extreme jaw strength and ...

The Ice Age was a world locked in endless winter, where massive glaciers crept across continents and woolly mammoths roamed ...

The German hairy snail, a fingernail-sized ice-age species found along the River Thames, is now a top conservation concern.

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

Ice Age — the third outing for the epic Prehistoric Planet docuseries — steps away from dinosaurs to focus on the Pleistocene age’s long-extinct species with names like Megalonyx jeffersonii, which is ...