Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

When reindeer herders in Siberia spotted a small snout protruding from thawing ground, they were not expecting to uncover a 14,000‑year‑old puppy so intact that its whiskers, eyelashes, and even the ...

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 ...

Deep in the mountains of northern Norway, scientists have uncovered the remains of 46 Ice Age species, preserved for over 75,000 years in a hidden cave. This rare discovery, detailed in a new study ...

NEW YORK (AP) — If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an incredible time when the Earth was going through immense ...

Picture a world where massive glaciers sculpted the land, and woolly mammoths shared the plains with saber-toothed cats. This isn't a scene from a fantasy film, but rather a snapshot of Earth's ...

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 ...