Those comparisons, laid out in a paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews, point to a surprising conclusion: the Baume ...

We are focusing on extinct species from Europe and northern Asia, along with some from North America, including: We are using large compilations of carefully audited radiocarbon dates for each mammal ...

Not cute and endearing like present-day sloths in South America, these sloths were one of the strangest animals of the ice age. They weighed as much, or more, than the short-faced bear at 1 tonne ...

Focus: Tracing the transformation of tropically-adapted mammoths into highly specialised woolly mammoths of the late ice ... how animals adapted to a tropical climate evolved into the woolly mammoth ...

Climate change and the developments it spurs carry the narrative of the Quaternary ... Ice ages last about 100,000 years followed by warmer interglacials of 10,000 to 15,000 years each. The last ...

The drag marks were likely caused by humans using a travois, a simple framework of wooden poles, rather than by animals ... The study was published in Quaternary Science Advances, a peer-reviewed ...