A shocking new study claims the "smoking gun" behind the extinction of a number of animals and plants has been found: a massive asteroid that hit the Earth nearly 13,000 years ago. The research, ...

A sixth-century "mini" ice age may have been "the straw that broke the camel's back" that led to the final disintegration of the Western Roman Empire, a new study claims. Between A.D. 536 and 547, ...

During the Ice Age, a group of giant ground sloths died together, possibly after swallowing their own feces in a contaminated pool of shallow water. Scientists discovered the bones of nearly two dozen ...

Apple TV is taking viewers back in time. The streaming service announced its latest series, Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, and shared a new trailer for the natural history series with PEOPLE. "For two ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

Tumbling and sliding in the mountains, these super cute snow sloths are one of the most surprising and charming creatures of the Ice Age. Taking viewers a million years into the past, a cinematic ...