In a far northeastern corner of Yakutia, about 1,600 kilometers from Yakutsk, ecologist Sergei Zimov and his son Nikita have created what they call Pleistocene Park. They have turned a ...

Herds of horses, bison and reindeer could play a significant part in saving the world from an acceleration in global heating. That is the conclusion of a recent study showing how grazing herbivores ...

Goetze: A time-worn statement regarding things being "here today and gone tomorrow” proves true in our everyday lives as well ...

The gradient from Pleistocene to Holocene covered many millennia, but I show here that in AK–YT the portion of the Pleistocene–Holocene transition (P/HT) most critical for large mammals and their ...

The bones discovered at Goyet represent the largest assemblage of cannibalized Neanderthal remains in northern Europe. Nearly one-third of the 101 skeletal fragments bear unmistakable signs of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACTLate Pleistocene extinctions occurred globally over a period of about 50,000 years, primarily affecting mammals of ≥ 44 kg body mass ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A team of scientists from the United States, Italy, and China may ...

Climate change killed the last mammoths. Hunkered down on their final holdout, Siberia’s Wrangel Island, the shaggy herbivores died out as rising seas shrank their refuge and warm weather baked their ...

Five species of Cypria (one new), two species of Physocypria, five species of Cyclocypris (one new), the monotypic Reticulocypris, n. gen., of the Cyprinae, four species of Cypridoprinae (one new), ...

Temperatures in the Arctic continue to warm more than twice as fast as the rest of the world; that's according to the U.S. government's latest climate report. The past six years in the arctic have ...