Prehistoric fossils dating back to the Ice Age discovered in South Louisiana. What prehistoric animals used to roam Louisiana?

Until the end of the last ice age, American cheetahs, enormous armadillolike creatures and giant sloths called North America home. But it's long puzzled scientists why these animals went extinct ...

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In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake ...

Megafauna reigned supreme during the ice age. We don’t know for sure why prehistoric animals were so big. One theory says that bigger prey animals were less likely to be hunted.

A Texas highway project recently uncovered Ice Age megafauna bones in Lubbock. Archaeologists are still searching for human activity evidence, which could halt construction.

UC Berkeley researchers studied how the points functioned as part of a system and were used to bring down megafauna in the Ice Age.CREDIT: Courtesy of Scott Byram Simulating a pike system.

The Ice Age was kind to large mammals. From about 2.5 million to 11,700 years ago, they had the space—and the time—to roam far. Lions, for instance, were once found around the world.