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.

Known as the Younger Dryas, this partial return to ice-age conditions may have stressed ... species boundaries and wiped out all the big beasts. "[MacPhee's hyphothesis] doesn't even have ...

Nevertheless, the short-faced bear would have been a towering, frightening beast. Although the bears in ice age North America were the biggest and most powerful carnivores, they had some stiff ...

At age 75, Vadevino Alano keeps up a brisk pace ... to protect themselves from a colder and drier climate” during ice ages. Ground sloths might also have used the caves to hide offspring from ...

Some 95% of these prehistoric-looking beasts—which were contemporaries of long-extinct species like the woolly mammoth and the sabre-toothed tiger back in the Ice Age—are found in Kazakhstan.