Earth system box models are essential tools for reconstructing long-term climatic and environmental evolution and uncovering ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to survive the cold during the ice age. A team of palaeontologists and ...

Climate change is actually nothing new to our old planet. It has long driven the evolution of Earth's flora and fauna and good thing, too: Without those major shifts, we wouldn't be here today. But as ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Koalas with the bodies of lions. Elephants the size of your dog. Gigantic, 8-foot-tall sloths. These aren’t creatures found in science fiction: They walked our planet a million years ago, during the ...

Jared Wildenradt is likely the most prolific hiker of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail ever, and he doesn't plan to stop anytime soon. Lisa Siewert teaches geology and geography at the University of ...