Ever wondered what the world looked like when Homo sapiens first roamed the Earth? In this video, we journey through time to ...

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?

A 'smoking gun' on Ice Age megafauna extinctions Date: February 5, 2014 Source: University of Copenhagen Summary: It was climate that killed many of the large mammals after the latest Ice Age.

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An incredible selection of Ice Age 'megafauna' including a woolly mammoth and rhino dating back up to 60,000 years have been discovered in a Devon cave. Megafauna are large animals.

A popular idea suggests that the impact of a comet 10,000 years ago caused a mass extinction, killing off the Pleistocene megafauna. Convincing scientific evidence is still lacking.

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.

The last ice age ended 11,700 years ago, and with it went a lot of really fantastic large mammals — known as “megafauna” — that were bigger in stature than their modern-day counterparts.

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 ...

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.