A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to survive the cold during the ice age. A team of palaeontologists and ...

For many people, thinking of Ice Age animals evokes images of woolly mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. But in ...

Climate change is actually nothing new to our old planet. It has long driven the evolution of Earth's flora and fauna and good thing, too: Without those major shifts, we wouldn't be here today. But as ...

The contents of an ancient wolf pup's stomach yields surprising clues into the genetic lineage of extinct species.

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

DNA recovered from a wolf frozen in permafrost has helped researchers solve a 14,400 year-old woolly rhino extinction mystery ...

The findings, published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, show that woolly rhinos remained "genetically healthy" ...

Koalas with the bodies of lions. Elephants the size of your dog. Gigantic, 8-foot-tall sloths. These aren’t creatures found in science fiction: They walked our planet a million years ago, during the ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a new study is rewriting that history. Utilizing ancient DNA and reliable ...