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 ...

During the Ice Age, not only was the landscape of the Earth drastically different from what it is today, but so were the ...

[Related: Ice Age humans may have used pikes to hunt mammoths.] They found that the bones from several animals were probably used to make these needles: red foxes, bobcats, mountain lions ...

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 ...

When Earth was frozen over during the Pleistocene epoch, early humans crossed the Bering Strait from the Asian continent to ...

The paintings include depictions of what appear to be now-extinct animals, such as the mastodon, a prehistoric relative of the elephant, and giant sloths and Ice Age horses, researchers say.

Using the birth cycles of equivalent animals today as a reference ... Prof Pettitt said: "The results show that Ice Age hunter-gatherers were the first to use a systematic calendar and marks ...

A New York homeowner, in Scotchtown, Orange County, was "thrilled" to find mastodon fossils in their backyard, which museum ...

“Other bones from these animals are either thicker or not as ... as the climate became colder toward the end of the last ice age,” he added. Gilligan said the needles discovered at the Wyoming ...