In a far northeastern corner of Yakutia, about 1,600 kilometers from Yakutsk, ecologist Sergei Zimov and his son Nikita have created what they call Pleistocene Park. They have turned a ...

One of the iconic animals of the Pleistocene era, or “Ice Age,” is the dire wolf. Named in 1858, the dire or “terrible” wolf averaged about five feet long and 150 pounds, a bit larger than the modern ...

Herds of horses, bison and reindeer could play a significant part in saving the world from an acceleration in global heating. That is the conclusion of a recent study showing how grazing herbivores ...

In a rare and captivating discovery, researchers have uncovered the remarkably preserved remains of a 44,000-year-old wolf found deep within the permafrost of Yakutia, eastern Russia. This stunning ...

Berkeley - A University of California, Berkeley, paleobiologist and his colleagues warn that the future of the Earth's mammals could be as dire as it was between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, when a ...

Invisible footprints hiding since the end of the last ice age -- and what lies beneath them -- have been discovered by researchers using a special type of radar in a novel way. Invisible footprints ...

Earth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold glacial cycles transitioned into the current warmer interglacial. Such a ...

There wasn't anything special about the climate changes that ended the Pleistocene. They were similar to previous climate changes as recorded in deep sea cores. So what tipped the scale and caused the ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...