Researchers excavated the cave site in 2021 and 2022. During the 1990s, Norway experienced an increase in industrial mining projects. Many of these required workers to build extensive tunnel systems ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions. Plants with frost-resistant tissues, beetles with antifreeze-like blood, ...

An Albuquerque museum curator was part of a team that identified a new species related to the muskox — one that roamed thousands of years ago and found its final resting place in what's now known as ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Subscribe ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – A team of researchers has identified an Ice Age relative of the muskox from fossils uncovered in Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The new species, named Speleotherium logani, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a polar bear standing on snow in front of an exposed rocky cliff face For 75,000 years, the remnants of a diverse ecosystem of Ice ...

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 ...

In 1978, residents in the small community of Winameg in rural northwest Ohio discovered several bones of a mammal dating back to the Ice Age: a mastodon. Bowling Green State University studied the ...

"Ice Age Mammals" is written in the style of a Scientific American article, accessible to scientists and educated lay readers alike. It's a bit of a "field guide to extinct animals," said editor ...