Climate change is actually nothing new to our old planet. It has long driven the evolution of Earth's flora and fauna and good thing, too: Without those major shifts, we wouldn't be here today. But as ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered the remains of a vast animal community that lived in the European Arctic 75,000 years ago. The bones of 46 types of animals – including mammals, fish and birds – were ...

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 ...

Albuquerque museum curator helps identify Speleotherium logani, a previously unknown muskox relative that roamed the region ...

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is. Some 4 billion ...

Ice age people painted these animals 12,600 years ago.

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 ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...

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 ...

Whether they take the form of carved images, sculptured figurines, or elegant abstractions, artifacts produced in prehistoric times are rarely seen as artistic expressions in their own right. Rather, ...