In Canada's far north, a surprising discovery: fossilized feces of arctic ground squirrels contain DNA from woolly mammoths ...

Long before highways and high-rises, Earth was home to some seriously massive, strange, and downright wild animals. These ...

The cave lion was one of the biggest cats to ever live, prowling a huge swathe of territory from Western Europe across Siberia and into North America and hunting large prey - and perhaps even people - ...

An 8-mile stretch of rock art at Serrania La Lindosa depicts Ice Age megafauna including horses and three-toed hoofed mammals with trunks that vanished from South America thousands of years ago. These ...

Remnants of a lion-sized armadillo dating back to the Ice Age have been discovered resting on the riverbed of a half-submerged cave 40 feet below the surface of Comal County. It’s a sight straight out ...

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 ...

Most of the large animals that have walked the surface of Earth are no longer here. Why? Dan Mann thinks it’s because our recent climate has been too stable, at least when compared to the wacky ups ...

A sleepy koala may seem worlds apart from a giant Ice Age predator, but scientists have uncovered the first molecular evidence linking the two. The discovery, published in the journal Proceedings of ...