A research team led by Associate Professor Wang Yaqiong from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese ...

Zion National Park is known for iconic species, such as bighorn sheep and the endangered California condor. But, once upon a ...

A real-world Jurassic Park is never going to happen, but shooting for a more recent prehistoric era might be more achievable. The Pleistocene Park project is aiming to rebuild a lost Ice Age ecosystem ...

In a far northeastern corner of Yakutia, about 1,600 kilometers from Yakutsk, ecologist Sergei Zimov and his son Nikita have created what they call Pleistocene Park. They have turned a ...

The gradient from Pleistocene to Holocene covered many millennia, but I show here that in AK–YT the portion of the Pleistocene–Holocene transition (P/HT) most critical for large mammals and their ...

Nikita Zimov’s nickname for the vehicle seemed odd at first. It didn’t look like a baby mammoth. It looked like a small tank, with armored wheels and a pit bull’s center of gravity. Only after he ...

Herds of horses, bison and reindeer could play a significant part in saving the world from an acceleration in global heating. That is the conclusion of a recent study showing how grazing herbivores ...

Massive underground tunnels discovered across South America are not human-made. Scientists now believe extinct giant ground sloths dug these extensive ...

Temperatures in the Arctic continue to warm more than twice as fast as the rest of the world; that's according to the U.S. government's latest climate report. The past six years in the arctic have ...