A paleontologist from The University of Texas at Austin has discovered the fossilized remains of Ice Age animals that have never been found in Central Texas before—and he came across the bones while ...

A paleontologist snorkeling through the dark underwater passages of a Texas cave made a startling discovery: the streambed was littered with fossils of Ice Age animals, including species never before ...

The shrinking sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is, overall, a disaster. But paradoxically, the melting of the ice can also fuel the engine of the Arctic food chains: algae. Hippos, today restricted to ...

Populations of bowhead whales were able to hide from hunters under ice, a new study finds, saving them from extinction. But now, climate change is making that refuge disappear. A group of bowhead ...