Mammoths (Mammuthus) are prehistoric beasts that roamed tundra ecosystems during the last ice age (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago), but their evolutionary history goes back farther than that. The now ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In the downtown ivory shops, alongside whale baleen baskets and walrus tusk statuettes, tourists finger curios made from the fossils of shaggy Ice Age beasts that died on the ...

Thousands of rock art pictures depicting huge Ice Age creatures such as mastodons have been revealed by researchers in the Amazon rainforest. The paintings were probably made around 11,800 to 12,600 ...

Thousands of red ochre paintings—spanning animals, handprints, and unknown symbols—were found stretched across cliffs deep in the Colombian Amazon, revealing life at the end of the last ice age.

It was pitch dark in a North Dakota mine and the coal miners were up late, working through an early morning shift on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. But as a bulldozer operator approached a pile ...

The most endearing character in "Ice Age: The Meltdown" is Scrat's acorn. Okay, it -- he? -- has no lines, no personality, no cute cuddly face, and doesn't sing or dance. But, commendably, this little ...