From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like 'killer koalas', the visuals in this ...

Tom Hiddleston returns as narrator for a bigger, wilder chapter set deep in the Pleistocene. One of Apple’s most ambitious ...

Fieldwork conducted about a decade ago is only now changing researchers’ understanding of large mammal extinctions during the Ice Age. An analysis of DNA locked away in frozen soil samples reveals ...

Researchers bundled in down jackets toiled around the clock in these snowy tunnels as a massive drill rig churned downward to extract core samples and the secrets they contain from the deepest ...

The Ice Age roundworm DNA is the oldest genetic sequence ever recovered from feces. When you’re an 80kg (180lb) apex predator with massive teeth and claws, the world is your litter box—but you might ...

The tourists stopped to spread picnic blankets at a scenic point overlooking the picturesque lake of Lough Tay in Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains. But the four scientists trekked on, climbing toward the ...

Scientists recovered 39,000-year-old RNA from a frozen mammoth, revealing gene activity, physiology and stress, opening new ...

Recent high-resolution imaging of Mars has unveiled deep ‘scratches’ and craters that suggest the Red Planet once experienced ...

Antarctica's ice cores are like frozen diaries of Earth's past, preserving ancient air and climate clues. Most continuous ...