The fortuitous bounty of cyclic glacial thaws is perhaps most stunningly revealed to us in the occasional cache of well-preserved ice age mega-fauna. The latest care package hailing through deep time ...

Tucked away in the frozen soil of Siberia, a lion cub has reemerged after tens of thousands of years, its head still resting ...

I n August 1939, just a few weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War, a scattering of ivory mammoth fragments was ...

During the last ice age, the Earth was home to significantly more megafauna -- animals with adult body weights over 100 pounds -- than it is today. The Woolly Mammoth is one of the best-known examples ...