A strange cast of ferocious predators and giant herbivores lived here during the ice age. Graham Duggan Most archeologists agree that human beings reached North America 14,000 years ago, crossing ...

A GIANT bear which has been extinct for 11,000 years and a 5ft tall beaver could be resurrected by scientists that has been busy trying to bring back the Dodo. De-extinction experts have compiled a… ...

Being a giant predator during the Pleistocene — from around 2.6 million years to about 11,000 years ago — was no easy feat. From short-faced bears to Ice Age coyotes, American cheetahs, dire wolves, ...

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 ...

Minnesota’s state fossil is the giant beaver, an extinct creature the size of a small bear that roamed around the Twin Cities more than 10,000 years ago. Lawmakers had approved the new state fossil ...

The fossils found in an underwater cave in Mexico date back to the Ice Age. They belong to a variety of ancient humans and beasts, ranging from giant bears to saber-toothed cats.

Giant beavers the size of black bears once roamed the lakes and wetlands of North America. Fortunately for cottage-goers, these mega-rodents died out at the end of the last ice age.

A giant bear from the Ice Age and a 5ft-tall beaver could be next in line for resurrection by de-extinction scientists. At Colossal Biosciences in the US, scientists are already well on their way ...

The giant ice sheet formed during a period of the last ice age known as the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT) that lasted between 1.3 million and 700,000 years ago.

Giant Ice Age hand-axe unearthed in the UK's Medway Valley The largest of the "Giant hand-axes" found at the future site of the Maritime Academy School in Frindsbury, Kent, measures 29.6 cm in ...

A GIANT bear which has been extinct for 11,000 years and a 5ft tall beaver could be resurrected by scientists that has been busy trying to bring back the Dodo. De-extinction experts have compiled a… ...