‘Brown blob’ found in Yukon is a well-preserved Ice Age squirrel
It’s a debut that’s been about 30,000 years in the making. Yukon paleontologists have this week unveiled another unusual find
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Remains of ice age woolly rhinoceros found in melting Siberian permafrost
A well-preserved ice age woolly rhino with many of its internal organs still intact has been recovered from permafrost in
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‘Kind of incredible’: Researchers uncover details about ice age wolf pup found in Yukon
Scientists who have been studying a rare, perfectly-preserved ancient wolf pup found in Yukon are sharing some of their findings for the first
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Moose on the Mediterranean? Research sheds new light on where moose once roamed
If you’re trying to survive an ice age — why not decamp to Italy? That’s what moose seem to have done thousands
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Fossils found in northwestern Canada help scientists retrace steps of ancient hyena
A pair of fossilized teeth found near Old Crow, Yukon (northwestern Canada), in the 1970s sheds new light on the
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Why did giant beavers go extinct? It was their diet, researchers say
If a modern beaver can fell big trees, dam rivers and essentially create its own habitat — imagine what a
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Ice-Blog: Anthropocene -No ice age – more blizzards?
If you are sitting somewhere on the East Coast of the USA, struggling to cope with 30 inches of snow,
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Eroding Arctic Alaska river opens window to past
A river on Alaska’s North Slope is eroding along one of its sections faster than that of any river in
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Woolly mammoth diet mystery solved by DNA analysis
What did giant mammals like woolly mammoths eat when they roamed the Arctic during the last Ice Age? A DNA
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