Using ancient megafauna DNA, climate data and the archaeological record, the findings indicate dramatically different responses of Ice Age species to climate change and humans.

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 ...

This could have been our reality if the Ice Age megafauna had not succumbed to extinction. The Ice Age, a period marked by extensive ... Read more The post What If the Ice Age Megafauna Had Survived?

20 Cool Facts About the Ice Age Megafauna like woolly mammoths dominated during the ice age. | Daniel Eskridge/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images ...

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 ...

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

Indeed, evidence from ancient North American sites shows American Clovis hunter-gatherers at least occasionally killed or scavenged ice age megafauna such as mammoths.

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