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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

UPDATE: Earlier this week, multiple media outlets ran stories about new scientific research suggesting that a "mini ice age" was heading our way in the next 30 years. But there was one issue -- that's ...

jacob Jean measures his height compared to a mural of a mammoth during their field trip to the Waco Mammoth Site in Waco, TX on May 3, 2011. At left facing camera is Melenie (cq) Juarez, also a 5th ...

The Sub-Zero heroes are in over their heads! Help them escape the biggest flash flood in the prehistory as you swim, splash, and scurry through a melting world. Experience all the action and adventure ...

A kid-friendly platformer with more heart than your average film-to-game marketing tie-in, Ice Age 2 can be quite fun--for as long as it lasts. Ice Age was one of the more-successful attempts to ...

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 ...

An Ice Age giant was tumbling around North America during the Late Pleistocene. About the size of a bear, it was actually a kind of enormous sloth that had evolved to thrive in freezing conditions.