A 1-year birthday party for Hope, a reticulated giraffe who had to be raised by her human caregivers, at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Once they got over their ...

More than 150,000 years ago, 13-foot-tall woolly mammoths and 6-ton mastodons roamed the wetlands surrounding a glacial lake in what is now an international ski destination: Snowmass. When a ...

Roughly 13,000 years ago, Ice Age animals such as saber-toothed cats, the American lion and mammoths started going extinct in the Los Angeles basin, about a thousand years before their extinction in ...

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While it’s beginning to feel like spring in Nebraska, the Lee G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park in Ashland is preparing to take visitors on a frigid journey back in time. An adult and juvenile mastodon ...

Imagine a time when massive woolly beasts roamed icy plains, giant predators stalked frozen forests, and some creatures were so bizarre they'd give today's wildlife a run for their money. The Ice Age ...

Humans aren't the only creatures who love leftovers. It turns out foxes during the Ice Age had a craving for them, too. Arctic foxes ate food scraps left by humans around 42,000 years ago, according ...

Gold miners in the Yukon are discovering mummified ancient animals from the Ice Age. Paleontologists often gather truckloads of fossils from the mines, but mummies are special and rare. Photos from ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Flower power may have meant the difference between life and death for some of the extinct giants of the Ice Age, including the mighty woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros.

Paleontologists often gather truckloads of fossils from the mines, but mummies are special and rare. Photos from inside the gold mines and the lab offer a glimpse at the ancient past. Miners are ...