Fifty thousand years ago, North America was home to towering giants. Mammoths roamed the tundra, saber-toothed cats hunted in ...

Who or what snuffed out the mammoths and other megafauna 13,000 years ago ... (See a list of all 35 vanished genera of North American Ice Age mammals.) But some skeptics, Grayson among them ...

Looking for blind cavefish in San Luis Potosí, biologist Luis Espinasa and his team accidentally found the remains of giant ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

Although the bears in ice age North America were the biggest and most powerful carnivores, they had some stiff competition. Twenty thousand years ago, lions roamed the entire planet. The American ...

Most professional biologists, myself included, do not think they have brought dire wolves back from extinction by any ...

Robin Bicknell, Director The Nature of Things documentary, Ice Bridge tells ... large selection of avian and megafauna, we settled on: the Arctodus simus (North American Short Faced Bear), the ...

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 ...

The BC Megafauna Project looks at ice age animals found in British Columbia. Our aim is to find and document as many of them as possible, from both public and private collections. We want to know when ...

A Texas-based genetics company says the long-extinct dire wolf is back. Some critics say that's not quite true.