In a far northeastern corner of Yakutia, about 1,600 kilometers from Yakutsk, ecologist Sergei Zimov and his son Nikita have created what they call Pleistocene Park. They have turned a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Mormoops megalophylla (Peters), Conepatus leuconotus (Lichtenstein) and Felis pardalis Linn. are reported from Pleistocene deposits in Florida ...

Herds of horses, bison and reindeer could play a significant part in saving the world from an acceleration in global heating. That is the conclusion of a recent study showing how grazing herbivores ...

Intense, violent attacks by large packs of some of the world's biggest carnivores -- including extinct lions much larger than those of today, and sabertooth cats -- limited the population sizes of ...

Editor’s note: Caprock Chronicles is written or edited by Paul Carlson, emeritus professor of history at Texas Tech. The essay this week looks at the massive extinction of large mammals on the ...

The mammal fauna from Harrodsburg Crevice, a late Pleistocene site from southern Indiana, U.S.A., has several notable features, including one of the most northerly occurrences of Panthera onca augusta ...

One of the iconic animals of the Pleistocene era, or “Ice Age,” is the dire wolf. Named in 1858, the dire or “terrible” wolf averaged about five feet long and 150 pounds, a bit larger than the modern ...

YAKUTSK, October 18. /TASS/. The number of animals in the Pleistocene Park in Yakutia's north, where experts have been recreating the mammoth steppe, may be increased from 150 to 2,000, the park's ...

The environment encountered when the first people emigrated into the New World was variable and ever-changing, according to a Penn State geologist. The environment encountered when the first people ...

The environment encountered when the first people emigrated into the New World was variable and ever-changing, according to a Penn State geologist. "The New World was not a nice quiet place when ...