Large, violent animal packs shaped the ecosystems of the Pleistocene epoch Wide variety of data used to reconstruct an ancient era Date: October 26, 2015 Source: University of California - Los ...

With enough animals, 80% of all permafrost could be preserved through the end of this century, researchers believe.

The Pleistocene Holocene transition took place about 11,000 years ago and caused the extinction of a large number of animal species including mammoths, mastodons and ground sloths.

For about 1,000 years at the end of the last ice age, the woolly mammoths, steppe bison, ancient horses and other Pleistocene animals that populated Alaska's North Slope enjoyed a golden age ...

They think the seemingly sudden deaths of many of these animals in the Alaskan and Yukon mucks could be explained by airbursts and impacts from comet debris that struck Earth during the Late ...

Researchers said that the Pleistocene animals were possibly much 50 to 100 times larger than today's spotted hyenas, tigers and African lions.

A 42,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth specimen is on display at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City. The rare mammoth carcass is one of the best-preserved animal specimens ever discovered.

Elephants are plagued by the same deadly bacteria that infected mammoths, genetic experts have found. A study of mammoth ...

Humans may have hunted the animals and used fire to alter the landscape, and humans and climate change are still the top contenders for extinction triggers in Australia (and elsewhere).

A supernova 2.6 million years ago may be related to a marine megafaunal extinction at the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary where 36 percent of the genera were estimated to become extinct.

The animals are getting adapted to new conditions and prepare for Yakutia's frosty winter. Presently, the Pleistocene Park has only 150 animals - bison, musk oxen, camels, deer and Yakut horses.

For years, evolutionary biologists have wondered how ecosystems during the Pleistocene epoch survived despite the presence of many species of huge, hungry herbivores, such as mammoths, mastodons ...