A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

A new study has revealed when and how animals like the woolly mammoth, musk ox, and arctic fox developed special adaptations ...

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

During the Ice Age, not only was the landscape of the Earth drastically different from what it is today, but so were the animals you'd find walking along side our ancestors.

Animals we still see today, like shrews, mice, and lemmings, survived despite the changing landscape. Megafauna reigned supreme during the ice age. We don’t know for sure why prehistoric animals ...

During vast stretches of the planet’s history, oceans from pole to pole were covered with a blanket of ice a kilometer or so thick. Scientists call this “snowball Earth.” Some early animals ...

To keep warm during the most recent ice age, early humans needed protective ... but bone needles and the bones of the fur-bearing animals used to make pelts provide some indirect evidence of ...

Lines, dots and other symbols painted in caves during the last Ice Age may be the earliest example ... hunter-gatherers alongside drawings of prey animals recorded animal behavior “critical ...