AUSTIN, Texas — Life-sized ice age-era animals are coming to Austin. Starting this Saturday, May 9, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center will host an event called "Ice Age in the Wild," which will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The unusual proboscis of the Saiga antelope helps filter dust, regulate air temperature, and protect its lungs in harsh steppe ...

Koalas with the bodies of lions. Elephants the size of your dog. Gigantic, 8-foot-tall sloths. These aren’t creatures found in science fiction: They walked our planet a million years ago, during the ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an incredible time when the Earth was going through immense ...

Scientists excavating bones in Arne Qvamgrotta, a cave in the Norwegian Arctic. Trond Klungseth Lødøen, CC BY-NC-ND As the Arctic warms faster than anywhere else on Earth, animals that have evolved to ...

While exploring a cave in central Texas, scientists unearthed a long-lost ice-age ecosystem, including the remains of a giant tortoise and a lion-size armadillo relative, among a trove of fossils in ...