Ice age people painted these animals 12,600 years ago.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The unusual proboscis of the Saiga antelope helps filter dust, regulate air temperature, and protect its lungs in harsh steppe ...

Long before highways and high-rises, Earth was home to some seriously massive, strange, and downright wild animals. These ...

Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, survived in central Europe far longer than previously assumed. Analyses of bone finds demonstrate that hippos inhabited the Upper Rhine Graben sometime ...

Ancient DNA reveals that cave lions were a distinct evolutionary lineage that split from modern lions more than a million years ago.

By Will Dunham June 4 (Reuters) - The cave lion was one of the biggest cats to ever live, prowling a huge swathe of territory from Western Europe across Siberia and into North America and hunting ...

Ice-making fungus with 'phenomenal' ice-making capabilities may trigger rain or snow, how scientists are leveraging the ...

Marks beside animal paintings in European caves have been reexamined as a possible lunar calendar tracking mating and ...

Scientists excavating bones in Arne Qvamgrotta, a cave in the Norwegian Arctic. Trond Klungseth Lødøen, CC BY-NC-ND As the Arctic warms faster than anywhere else on Earth, animals that have evolved to ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Archaeologists exploring the word's biggest flooded cave in Mexico have discovered ancient human remains at least 9,000 years old and the bones of animals who roamed the earth ...

Growing up, I was obsessed with the 2002 movie Ice Age. I watched it day in and day out, captivated by the adventures of Diego the saber-toothed tiger, Sid the sloth, and Manny the woolly mammoth. To ...