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 softly on its paw, as if caught mid-nap. The Ice Age creature, thought to ...
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 ...
Griffith University reseracher Associate Professor Julien Louys retrieves a fossil from the underwater Gouldens cave site in Mt Gambier, South Australia. Cave diving is a recreation and emergency ...