Ancient trees may have played a key role in regulating Earth's climate during the last ice age—by 'breathing' less ...

“Everyone knows that the woolly mammoth went extinct, but virtually no-one mentions the plants that were lost at the end of the last ice age,” says Prof Ulrike Herzschuh from the Alfred Wegener ...

Narrator Tom Hiddleston teases "remarkable creatures and epic clashes for survival" in a sneak peek at 'Prehistoric Planet: ...

Welcome to July! I know it’s hot, but wasn’t it just last month we were grumbling about the gloom? Researchers say our bodies deal with high heat better after a period of acclimation, so try doing ...

At the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, Jessie George and other paleobotanists — the folks who study ancient plants the way paleontologists study prehistoric bones — are compiling a list of California ...

Aug. 18 (UPI) --Over the past decade, deadly wildfires have become increasingly common because of both human-caused climate change and disruptive land management practices. Southern California, where ...

LOS ANGELES — Given the short half-life of DNA, we may never have a Jurassic Park — but could we one day boast of an Ice Age Garden? Scientists have brought back to life a collection of roughly ...

Palo Alto, CA– When glaciers advanced over much of the Earth’s surface during the last ice age, what kept the planet from freezing over entirely? This has been a puzzle to climate scientists because ...

Scientists have recently successfully isolated and sequenced the oldest-known RNA from a juvenile male woolly mammoth – ...

A worn-down mammoth tooth discovered nearly 150 years ago on an island in Nunavut offers new insights into where and how the Ice Age giants lived and died.

Thousands of people walking and playing across the frozen River Thames. Soldiers on horseback capturing ships stuck in the ice. Indigenous populations using snowshoes to outfox English interlopers.