A Pleistocene marine terrace veneer exposed in sea cliffs south of Punta Camalú, Baja California Norte, Mexico has yielded over 100 species of invertebrates. The assemblage represents open coast ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Mormoops megalophylla (Peters), Conepatus leuconotus (Lichtenstein) and Felis pardalis Linn. are reported from Pleistocene deposits in Florida ...

Large animals started going extinct at the end of the Pleistocene, just as both climate change and a new predator — Homo sapiens — arrived on the scene. But despite humans’ brutal legacy of killing ...

Siberian locals have discovered an incredible prehistoric time capsule in what paleontologists believe is the largest ancient hyena lair ever found in Asia. The cave contained a whole menagerie of ...

Editor’s note: Caprock Chronicles is written or edited by Paul Carlson, emeritus professor of history at Texas Tech. The essay this week looks at the massive extinction of large mammals on the ...

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 ...

Intense, violent attacks by large packs of some of the world's biggest carnivores -- including extinct lions much larger than those of today, and sabertooth cats -- limited the population sizes of ...

The environment encountered when the first people emigrated into the New World was variable and ever-changing, according to a Penn State geologist. The environment encountered when the first people ...

YAKUTSK, October 18. /TASS/. The number of animals in the Pleistocene Park in Yakutia's north, where experts have been recreating the mammoth steppe, may be increased from 150 to 2,000, the park's ...

The environment encountered when the first people emigrated into the New World was variable and ever-changing, according to a Penn State geologist. "The New World was not a nice quiet place when ...