A biotechnology company whose goal is to bring back the wooly mammoth says its recent small step is big news. Colossal ...

From woolly rhinos to wolves, brown bears to bison, many Ice Age animals have been recovered from the world’s permafrost. Apart from being slightly crushed and maybe a little bit nibbled, very often ...

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 ...

A US biotech company has genetically modified mice to have traits from the extinct woolly mammoth. Researchers at Colossal ...

For 24,000 years, tiny creatures lay dormant, entombed in the frozen depths of Siberia’s permafrost. These microscopic ...

"Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time is very unlikely to happen, because human emissions of carbon ...

In Ice Bridge we wanted to bring this ancient Ice Age world alive by digitally recreating some of the incredible animals that roamed North America during the time. First, we had to decide which ...

Hoping to find evidence that mammoths, camels and other Pleistocene (ice age) animals coexisted with humans, Shutler and a team of 21 archeologists spent months living in tents in the desert ...

Scientists also discovered pieces of charred wood at the Kostenki 11 site. This indicates that Ice Age humans had access to wood for fuel and possibly for construction. However, the scarcity of wood ...

Back when the Earth was being overrun by glaciers, and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, and a saber-toothed ...