The extinction patterns observed at the end of the last ice age offer clues about which species are most vulnerable today.

The cushion plants could facilitate their spreading, hastening their own extinction in the process." The end of the last ice age also caused some types of vegetation to disappear entirely—as the ...

Could the Woolly Mammoth and Tasmanian Tiger roam the Earth again? We take a look at how scientists are using genetic ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

Why mammoths and other Arctic mammals became extinct at the end of the last ice age is a hotly debated question ... and other mammals into extinction. 1 However, researchers also consider climate ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a ... Humans had been causing extinctions at least since the Ice Age. Polynesian expansion, particularly into New Zealand, was responsible for large ...

We are researching the cause of megafaunal extinction in the last major extinction event. Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present ...

While the auks outlasted other ice age species, humans ultimately caused their extinction. Europeans slaughtered them in great numbers, first for their meat and then for the birds' fat and downy ...

The mice were created by Colossal Biosciences, which edits DNA for species conservation, and has been working to bring back the woolly mammoth since 2021.

“When we look at Ice Age 10, we can very clearly predict when Ice Age 9, 8, 7 and 6, and so on, all happened,” Nuber said. Researchers came up with this method by looking at “astronomical ...