Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are an iconic species of the Southern Ocean. But with rapid environmental changes ...

While the statement doesn’t name a specific mammoth species, the tusk might have belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant cousin of the more familiar woolly mammoth. The shaggy elephantine animal ...

(See a list of all 35 vanished genera of North American Ice Age mammals.) But some skeptics, Grayson among them, have asked where's the evidence? Grayson and archeologist David Melzer of Southern ...

We humans may or may not have killed off the giant mammals of the Ice Age. But we are unquestionably threatening innumerable species today, as we expand relentlessly into ever more of their habitats.

and that they expanded from these areas as global temperatures warmed following the ice age. Other mammals (such as beavers and lynx) expanded from glacial refugia to the east of Europe only to ...

Our research will test current hypotheses to explain body size variation in ice-age mammals, including: Temperature: Large animals are better adapted to cold periods as they conserve heat more ...

We will then combine these datasets into ecological niche models (ENMs) in order to identify the most important factors (climatic change, vegetation change, humans) for determining the past ...