Ice Age

Scientists recover genome from woolly rhino eaten by Ice Age wolf puppy - study

Researchers have extracted DNA and recovered the rhino's genome from a chunk of undigested meat from the stomach contents found in a wolf puppy's remains.

A piece of tissue from a woolly rhinoceros that was found inside the stomach of an Ice Age grey wolf puppy discovered in permafrost near the Russian village of Tumat in northeastern Siberia is seen in a laboratory in Vienna, Austria, in this handout picture taken in 2020.
People in protective suits examine a frozen woolly mammoth from Siberia named "Yuka" during a media preview at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei November 6, 2013.

Scientists discover RNA molecules from a mammoth that went extinct 40,000 years ago

A Pug dog called Harley, and star of the film "Patrick" poses for photographs at the film's premiere in London, Britain June 27, 2018.

Before pugs or Great Danes: Doggie diversity in size and shape began at tail end of Ice Age

Scientists uncover how tropical hippos weathered the last Ice Age in Central Europe.

Scientists uncover how tropical hippos weathered the last Ice Age in Central Europe


Ancient DNA Reveals Mastodons Were Shaped by Ice Age Climate Swings

New genetic evidence uncovers repeated waves of dispersal and surprising diversity among North America’s Ice Age giants.

An adult mastodon consuming a spruce branch set against a backdrop illustrating their cyclical continental migrations linked to climate fluctuations.

Scientists date 300,000-year reindeer tooth, resetting Iberia’s Ice Age calendar

The fossil, recovered with a human skull fragment and stone tools, shows reindeer lived beside early humans across the peninsula.

The Fossil from Atapuerca: an Upper Deciduous Third Molar from a Young Reindeer.

Dargan cave findings reveal humans lived in Australia's Blue Mountains during last Ice Age

The findings upended long-held beliefs about how humans moved through the mountains and challenges long-held assumptions about ancient human life in Australia.

 Blue Mountains National Park, Australia.

Famous Ice Age 'puppies' identified as wolf cubs

Researchers were surprised to see evidence of a woolly rhinoceros as part of the puppies' last meals, as this would have been a considerably large animal for a wolf to hunt.

 One of the wolf cub siblings uncovered

Archaeologists discover 20,000-year-old stone tools in South African caves, revealing Ice Age techn

"Finding the same tools and the same methods used to make these tools across this entire country suggests that people were connecting with each other over long distances."

 Archaeologists discover 20,000-year-old stone tools in South African caves, revealing Ice Age technological sophistication.

Geological evidence links Late Antique Little Ice Age to fall of Roman Empire

Gernon: 'the Late Antique Little Ice Age helped tip the balance when the Eastern Empire was stretched thin'.

 Geological evidence links Late Antique Little Ice Age to fall of Roman Empire.

How foragers built great fires when the Ice Age was at its coldest

A recent Geoarchaeology study led by William C. Murphree and colleagues investigates three combustion features at the Ukrainian site of Korman’ 9, dated to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM).

 How foragers built great fires when the Ice Age was at its coldest. Illustration.

After 46,000 years, once thawed the worm extracted from Arctic permafrost resumed normal activity

The nematode, officially named Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, was discovered at a depth of 40 meters inside a fossilized burrow of Arctic squirrels.

 Permafrost areas.

Ice Age American families pulled travois 22,000 years ago, White Sands discovery shows

Footprints of adults and children alongside drag marks indicate Ice Age families used travois to transport goods.

 Ancient American families pulled travois 22,000 years ago, White Sands discovery shows.

An Ice Age refuge: DNA of humans, wolves, mammoths retrieved from sediments in El Mirón cave

For the first time, researchers managed to recover DNA from sediment at a Cantabrian site.

 Aerial view of an autumnal landscape of beech forest in Ramales de la Victoria village within Alto Ason Natural Park of Cantabria Autonomous Community of Spain.

Study reveals how Ice Age humans built mammoth-bone structures

Evidence suggests humans scavenged mammoth bones from existing bone beds over centuries.

 Mammoth bones.