For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Learn how ancient DNA uncovered Ice Age forests on sunken Doggerland and revealed a landscape that once linked Britain to mainland Europe.

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 ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A new study gives scientists a fresh look at what life was like in the Las Vegas valley more than 12,000 years ago. Before the strip, Southern Nevada was home to ice-age animals.

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene ...

Forests were growing on the now-submerged landmass of Doggerland thousands of years earlier than previously believed, according to a major new sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) study led by the ...

The remains of a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros recovered from an Ice Age wolf's stomach have given new clues about the demise of the species. Analysis of the rhino's genome suggests the extinct ...

A clip from the upcoming series "Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age" shows how iconic ice age creatures adapted to their changing environment as temperatures rose and ice sheets started to melt. When you ...

NEW YORK (AP) — If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an incredible time when the Earth was going through immense ...

Narrator Tom Hiddleston teases "remarkable creatures and epic clashes for survival" in a sneak peek at 'Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age' Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

The North Sea is home to the remains of a vast land that has been lost to time and is referred to as Doggerland, the area of land that connected Great Britain to continental Europe following the last ...

Picture a world where massive glaciers sculpted the land, and woolly mammoths shared the plains with saber-toothed cats. This isn't a scene from a fantasy film, but rather a snapshot of Earth's ...