An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to ...

In mid-January, a team of scientists were sailing aboard a research vessel in frigid Antarctic waters. They planned to investigate an unexplored section of the Bellingshausen Sea and the creatures ...

The mountain pygmy possum, a tiny nocturnal marsupial, was once known only from Ice Age fossils. Today, we know where its ...

When the Chicago-size iceberg drifted away, scientists seized the opportunity to study the life and geologic formations ...

A massive iceberg broke off from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica in January, giving researchers a rare opportunity to ...

A listing of Glitzenstein's legal victories reads like an animal alphabet, with entries ranging from "charismatic megafauna" ...

A trail of 23,000-year-old footprints in New Mexico is rewriting the story of when—and how—humans first arrived in North ...

While the statement doesn’t name a specific mammoth species, the tusk might have belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant cousin of the more familiar woolly mammoth. The shaggy elephantine animal ...

Since the last major ice age, populations of large animals have dwindled. These declines have directly affected climate ...

Now, researchers have successfully excavated the tusk and hoping to find out just how long ago it was that this megafauna roamed ... near the end of the last Ice Age, roughly 10,000 years ago.

“The diameter of the hair becomes smaller,” says Luke. “Sebum, your body’s natural oil production, declines with age, which results in hair that is not as shiny, soft or smooth.

A new study, based on a census of stars in the Milky Way, indicates that these ice ages might have been triggered by nearby supernovas. "If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close ...