Why are frogs diverse in some parts of Africa's rainforests and less so in others? The patterns of cooling and glaciation ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a new study is rewriting that history. Utilizing ancient DNA and reliable ...

Two studies published in Nature report that domestic dogs lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across western Eurasia as ...

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 ...

Divers found a sinkhole in Florida's Steinhatchee River. It holds fossils from nearly half a million years ago. These ancient remains belong to extinct horses, giant armadillos, and ground sloths. 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 ...

In caves along the Canadian coast, archaeologists have theorised how early humans hunted one of the most terrifying predators ...

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 ...

Early humans may have survived a brutal ice age by hiding out in mountain caves located in what’s now Serbia.