The fate of humanity might have looked radically different if Ice Age titans like the mammoth and saber-toothed cat had ...

An ancient hornless rhino fossil found in the Canadian Arctic, Epiaceratherium itjilik, shows rhinos once lived much farther ...

Beneath the ice of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, scientists discovered a vast, organized city of fish nests revealed after the ...

“Age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress; and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American ...

A biotech startup is taking the first real steps towards bringing the dodo bird back from extinction. No one has seen this bird since the late 17th century, but that doesn't mean it has been forgotten ...

Two people of interest are in custody after gunfire Downtown on Fountain Square injured two people on Monday evening. Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said a disagreement between two parties "at ...

Hippos from Central Europe were assumed to have gone extinct around 115,000 years ago when the temperate conditions of the region transitioned into an icy one with the end of the last interglacial ...

A sparkling green emerald in a turquoise sea, crowned by an azure sky and formed by volcanic rock, Mauritius is a small independent island nation of 787 square miles in the Indian Ocean with a ...

Hippos lived in Europe alongside mammoths and woolly rhinos during the last Ice Age, according to new research. Detailed analysis of bone finds shows that the heat-loving semi-aquatic mammals ...

Hippos lived at the Upper Rhine in the same time frame as mammoths. In the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen a hippo reconstruction meets a mammoth skeleton. Credit: Rebecca Kind Hippos in Ice Age Germany? New ...

Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and, like a bottle cap taken off a soda bottle, that reduced pressure slowed down a process of critical carbon ...