Koalas with the bodies of lions. Elephants the size of your dog. Gigantic, 8-foot-tall sloths. These aren’t creatures found in science fiction: They walked our planet a million years ago, during the ...

Deep in the mountains of northern Norway, scientists have uncovered the remains of 46 Ice Age species, preserved for over 75,000 years in a hidden cave. This rare discovery, detailed in a new study ...

Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, survived in central Europe far longer than previously assumed. Analyses of bone finds demonstrate that hippos inhabited the Upper Rhine Graben sometime ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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. It was an incredible time when the Earth was going through immense ...

Narrator Tom Hiddleston teases "remarkable creatures and epic clashes for survival" in a sneak peek at 'Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age' Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

LOVELL — Falling 100 feet down into a dark cave is (almost) never a good thing. It is easy to imagine: a mountain lion sprinting after an antelope at 45 mph, both animals cresting a low rise. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. The Ice Age tends to get flattened into a postcard: endless white, ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

(Phys.org)—Small mammal populations across Europe were wiped out multiple times during the last Ice Age, due to an inability to deal with rapid climate change, according the research published today ...